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A systematic review of adjunctive probiotic therapy in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck | Probiotics, review, rhinitis, sinusitis
It is generally understood that administering substances containing live microbiologically active micro-organisms (probiotics) enhances the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis. Probiotics manipulate and rebalance the alterations occurring in the local microbiome in chronic rhinosinusitis patients. This results in propagation of healthy...

Management of necrotising otitis externa

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Although uncommon, necrotising (previously malignant) otitis externa (nOE) can be very aggressive, particularly if not managed appropriately. In this study the authors perform a retrospective review of 25 patients admitted with nOE over a four year period at a tertiary...
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Provision of hearing support to people with dementia in care homes

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult | dementia, COM-B model
The study suggests care home staff training in hearing care for residents with dementia is often not available or not considered a priority. Resources, facilities, training, staff capacity, capability and support vary widely. Care home provision also varies between social...

The accidental audiologist

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article we hear from Muhammed Ayas, an “accidental” audiologist applying his transferable skills as a clinician, academic, and researcher through trying and testing innovative approaches in audiology to better serve the community. My audiology journey began 22 years...

OBITUARY: Prof Shanmugam Kameswaran (1923-2021)

10 August 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Professor Shanmugam Kameswaran was born in 1923 and did his MBBS and MS at Madras Medical College, India, under PV Cherian who later became the Governor of Maharashtra, India. He worked as his assistant and left for the UK in...

OBITUARY: David Moffat (1948-2020)

10 June 2020 | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
David Moffat, one of the leading Otologists of his generation, died on 18 March in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, the hospital to which he had devoted his professional life. Having survived cancer of the prostate, he succumbed to a second...

Rapid genetic testing to avoid hearing loss in neonates

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Thousands of newborn babies could avoid a lifetime of hearing loss thanks to a new rapid genetic test. In this article, we learn how. We have demonstrated for the first time that a rapid genetic test from a cheek swab...

OBITUARY: Professor Wolfgang Steiner (1942–2024)

2 April 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
It is with great sadness that we must inform all our readers of the passing of the wonderful Professor Dr Wolfgang Steiner, the truly indomitable, passionate Professor of Otolaryngology of the Medical Faculty of Gottingen, Germany, from 1986–2007. Wolfgang died...

British Academy of Audiology Higher Training Scheme – Head of Service and trainee perspectives

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
For Jan/Feb 2022, we continue with the topic of the British Academy of Audiology Higher Training Scheme. We hear from Jane Beavan, Clinical and Professional Lead for Audiology/Clinical Scientist in Audiology, and Kim-Maree Collings, Senior Audiologist, from the Countess of...

The barber-surgeon of Avebury

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
On a stroll through Neolithic Britain, Seville oranges on a quay in Dundee, marmalade and 14th century coins, Chris Potter unravels the story of a man (a surgeon?) seemingly crushed by a falling 13-tonne stone. But things are not quite...

Progress of head and neck surgery in China over the last 20 years

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Although China was late to establish head and neck surgery in comparison to other areas of oncological surgery, with the persistent hard work of head and neck surgeons nationally, it has progressed significantly during the last two decades. Yueying Ma...

Understanding new and emerging categories of hearing devices

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The hearing device landscape is rapidly changing, and what should be given, to whom, and why, are questions that many hearing healthcare professionals are asking. Brent Edwards discusses these questions and how consumer characteristics may influence their choice. In 2016,...