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Leightons and The Hearing Care Partnership Opens Registration for Groundbreaking New Clinical Conference: Oxygen 2025

Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care is excited to announce that registration is now open for Oxygen 2025, a pioneering clinical conference taking place on the 9th and 10th of May 2025. This highly anticipated event, hosted by the leading independent,...

Oticon Medical Hosts Fifth Annual Good Vibrations Day

April 22, 2025. Gothenburg, Sweden. Oticon Medical is thrilled to announce the fifth annual Good Vibrations Day campaign, a month-long initiative dedicated to raising awareness about bone anchored hearing. Beginning 3rd April 2025, this campaign has been featuring various social...

The Matchgirls and Phossy Jaw: a striking tale of industrial action

Poor working conditions, long hours, low pay – and the prospect of a dangerous and disfiguring osteonecrosis of the jaw. These were the triggers for the 1400 ‘matchgirls’ of the Bryant and May factory to strike in July 1888, a...

OBITUARY: Randall Payne Morton (1948 - 2025)

Randall Payne Morton. Sadly I report the recent death of Randall Payne Morton, Professor of ORL-HNS in Auckland, New Zealand, on the 11 September 2025, after a long and protracted illness. I first met and worked with Randall during his...

SurgeOn social networking app

Over the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of exploring a modern-day surgical social media platform through the innovative SurgeOn app – launched in the UK in January 2025 after seeing success in the US. SurgeOn is easily...

The risks of misjudging African American dialects as lesser!

Healthcare inequalities in multicultural societies, such as the UK, are becoming increasingly apparent. They arise via a complex interplay of factors, with socioeconomic deprivation, structural biases and specific cultural and biological risk factors all contributing to disparities. There is ample...

The HEARO Procedure for cochlear implantation

Cochlear implants have become the state-of-the-art treatment for profound to severe sensorineural hearing loss. Since its popularisation, many aspects of this technology have constantly been optimised. Processors have become smaller, are worn behind the ear and are even water resistant....

Absorbing the hurt

In this article, taken from his blog, ENT surgeon John McGarva reminds us that while we can’t fix everything, we may still be able to help. It was a long time ago. I was a scarily young Houseman, barely 22,...

Sybill Storz 1937 - 2025

Sybill Storz. Surrounded by her closest family, the internationally-renowned Tuttlingen entrepreneur Sybill Storz passed away peacefully on 28 November 2025 at the age of 88. Her family, all the employees, and the Supervisory Board of the family-owned MedTech company KARL...

Swallowing assessments of the future: the role of artificial intelligence

The future’s bright, the future’s Orange AI… If you Google ‘how much is AI worth?’, the AI overview tells you “The global artificial intelligence (AI) market size is estimated at approximately $244 billion to $391 billion in 2025 and is...

Peter McKelvie 1932 – 2026

Peter McKelvie, an outstanding head & neck surgeon and oncologist, died on 6 February aged 93. He suffered a spontaneous subdural haemorrhage. British otolaryngology has lost the most remarkable talent of his generation. He combined a prodigious intellect with effortless...

CI Advocacy in Action 2026

WHERE SCIENCE MEETS EXPERIENCE CIICA, the CI International Community of Action, is now five years old, with 120 organisations and over 700 individuals in 76 countries. The shared goal of the network is to increase awareness of the impact of...