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Farewell to Prof Kim Ah-See

Kim Ah-See has been a stalwart member of the ENT & Audiology News team for many years. Since joining as a journal reviewer in 1997 and then taking on the role of How I Do It section editor a decade...

Can the audiology clinic benefit from advances in virtual reality?

François Patou discusses how the recent advances in virtual reality technologies can be used to support people living with hearing loss. He outlines some of the novel virtual reality tools that are emerging as resources to support delivery of audiology...

French clinic prize for Chloe Swords

Congratulations to Chloe Swords for winning the TWJ Short Papers Presentation Prize for 2023 for her presentation at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, UK. She is seen here being presented with her prize of a trip to the Jean Causse Clinic in Béziers, France, by Martin Bailey, Consultant ENT Surgeon.

Prevention is Better than Cure: Learning from Adverse Events in Healthcare

Ian Leistikow has an impressive CV; as Senior Inspector at the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate and a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, it is clear he is passionate about advancing...

Smoking causes cancer – so what’s new?

You may well ask what is the novel value of a paper looking at smoking habits in patients with confirmed head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), but this paper highlights some pertinent points for clinical practice in the current...

Facial palsy: What do patients and healthcare care about?

The article describes the process for establishing a collaborative research agenda to address gaps in understanding of the diagnosis, treatment management of facial palsy. A Delphi technique was used in order to establish a facial palsy research agenda. In round...

Foretelling: post-stroke recovery of dysphagia is predicted by cognition

Around two thirds of people in the acute phase of stroke recovery will experience dysphagia. Up to six months following a stroke this may be present in 13-18% of cases. The degree of cognitive impairment seems to be associated with...

My experience of addiction

In this incredibly honest and thought-provoking article, we hear from an anonymous doctor who has struggled with addiction. The nature of addiction is a subject of interest to a broad range of scientific disciplines, from medicine to psychology, psychotherapy and...

Training in Facial Plastic Surgery in the UK

Following the Keogh report earlier this year into the quality of cosmetic surgery in the UK, surgical training in cosmetic surgery is high on the agenda. A Cosmetic Surgery Interspecialty Committee at the Royal College of Surgeons is currently discussing...

Bishop Berkeley and the Freireich experimental hypothesis

Our resident reporter at large tells us about two of his heroes, both of whom have quite clear merits and foibles. My patients just keep on getting better. You may well point out that under the care of a clinician...

XXXVIII Congreso Panamericano ORL

The 38th PanAmerican meeting will be full of innovative lectures and sunny afternoons. It launches with three pre-meeting workshops on 15 June: cochlear implants, in conjunction with the International Federation of Otolaryngology Societies (IFOS); Botox injections and facial contouring; and...

Tish Gaffney – AAA President

From a sunny Southend, UK, Gareth Smith takes 10 minutes to dial into the Sunshine State, USA, and catch up with Tish Gaffney for a lightning-speed chat on the movements and motivations of the 35th president of the American Academy...