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Sound advice for staying healthy: promoting holistic health in adults with hearing loss

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss is linked to chronic conditions like dementia and heart disease. Dr Maidment explores how integrated healthcare can improve outcomes, highlighting the need for a multidisciplinary approach. Emerging evidence suggests that hearing loss is associated with an increased risk...

Getting It Right First Time in ENT

14 January 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Andrew Marshall, a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, visited 126 departments across England before publishing his recent ENT surgery national report for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. Here, he explains how identifying unwarranted...

An undergraduate perspective on changes to audiology education

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
I have completed two years of study and am currently preparing for my final year, which consists of a twenty-five week placement alongside a research project and theoretical modules. It is inevitable that, as a result of the changes made...

A global online fellowship in head and neck surgery and oncology

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
The International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS) offers an online fellowship training programme for advanced trainees wishing to subspecialise in head and neck surgery and oncology. Emma Stapleton speaks with the Chairman of the Board of Directors...

Introduction to speech testing

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Let’s get back to basics: Dr Schoepflin introduces the concepts behind speech testing for hearing care professionals. While pure tone threshold testing is considered the ‘gold standard’ for assessing auditory sensitivity, the results of pure tone testing provide only limited...

Clinical and financial success by providing specialised audiological tinnitus management

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Diagnosis and management of a patient with chronic subjective tinnitus is one of the most labour-intensive areas of hearing healthcare. This is one reason some hearing care providers opt to exclude specialised tinnitus care from their practice: it may not...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa (Part 2)

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT
In the last issue of ENT & Audiology News, we heard from retired Professor Christopher Prescott on the challenges faced and progress made made locally to address the inequity and inequality of access to ENT and allied health professional services...

Voices: In conversation with Nick Coleman

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Nick Coleman is an author and journalist who has written for several national newspapers and music magazines. Following sudden unilateral deafness in 2007, he wrote The Train in the Night, which describes his experience of hearing loss, rehabilitation and what...

In conversation with Ulrik Pedersen, Chairman of the EBEORL-HNS Exam Board

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - ENT
The European Examination Board in Otorhinolaryngology was created in 2008 in order to ‘harmonise the knowledge base among otorhinolaryngolgists throughout Europe’. Declan Costello spoke to new Chairman of the Board, Ulrik Pedersen. Ulrik Pedersen. Congratulations on your appointment as the...

The ear-brain connection: the role of cognition in neural speech processing

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Audiologists and other hearing healthcare professionals have become increasingly interested in the importance of cognitive function in the assessment and management of hearing loss, especially in light of evidence suggesting a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline in older...

How should we detect and identify deficit-specific auditory processing disorders?

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The human central auditory nervous system (CANS) is complex and highly dependent upon attention and cognitive brain regions. Profs David Moore and Harvey Dillon discuss novel assessment approaches to clarify auditory contributions to listening difficulties in children. How can we...

Beyond ‘sticky floors’ and glass ceilings’: eight women department and society leaders share their stories

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
In the United States and Canada, there have been a total of 12 women otolaryngologists who have achieved high positions of leadership. Eight of these women were interviewed for this piece. Each woman’s responses were thoughtful and truthful. Common themes...