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Cognitive effort and listening in everyday life

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Dining with family members, amongst the clinking of dishes and glasses, the sounds of conversations and laughter, the husband, a user of hearing aids, misses his wife’s request to bring another bottle of wine. After a third try, the wife,...

Towards AI-assisted RF hearing aids

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The development of effective hearing-assistive devices is essential as the prevalence of deafness grows with an ageing population. Where can AI support speech understanding? A team from the University of Glasgow discusses how lip‑reading hearing aids could be the future....

Hearing International Annual Meeting 2023

31 October 2023 -1 November 2023
Zhang Juan, MD, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Chief Physician, Associate Director of the Hearing Center and Associate Director of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Department of Affiliated Beijing Chaoyang Hospital of Capital Medical University, China. The prestigious Hearing International Annual Meeting...

Pre-hospital care

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
For those of us that work within the acute hospital system, the sound of the trauma pager going off warning of an incoming casualty with as yet unknown injuries is often the sound of uncertainty and anxiety. When it becomes...

Brussels, a multicultural city with varied ENT practice

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Brussels has a proud history in the world of ENT. Jérome Lechien, who is on the Communications Committee for the CEORL-HNS 2019 Congress, and Daniele de Siati, a member of the international Scientific Committee, give us a history lesson and...

Wilde and the foundations of medical epidemiology

26 June 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
William Wilde (father of Oscar) was renowned as an otologist, but less well known for his work in epidemiology. The bedrock of the modern discipline of public health is good data collection, and we hear from our good friend, Ray...

Medical racism and the surgical ‘correction’ of the nose in Brazil

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Anthropologist Professor Carmen Alvaro Jarrín has conducted extensive research into plastic surgery practice in Brazil. Here, she explains why social and cultural ideas about race may shape rhinoplasty objectives for patients and surgeons in the country. Health professionals worldwide are...

Cambodian otology service – a fellowship with a difference

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people, still recovering from a chequered past. In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, most of the medical profession, together with the rest of the educated population, was executed – the fortunate few...

ENT in Ethiopia: Aksum-Barts Partnership

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
In keeping with many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia has a chronic lack of hospitals and doctors. Nadia Ashraf and Tim Crocker-Buqué tell us about a project which aims to improve training in ENT, in a hospital that has...

Helping provide hearing happiness in Malawi

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Children with hearing loss in low-income countries face many obstacles. UK-trained audiologist Chikondi Kuthyola shares her story and Malawi’s strides in cochlear implantation. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. In developing countries, deaf children and adolescents...

In conversation with Prof Metin Önerci

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Prof Valerie Lund caught up with friend and colleague, Prof Dr Metin Önerci, to discuss his various positions in rhinology, the FOAM programme with which he is involved, and rhinology in Turkey and the Balkan and the Central Asian region....

An idiot’s guide to the Ministry of Health

1 January 2016 |
Neville Chamberlain on an ill-judged charm offensive. Now I like to consider myself a well brought up sort of chap, and was always taught never to bring up religion, politics or (heaven forfend!) a lady’s name at the dinner table....