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Manual of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for Otolaryngologists book cover

Manual of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for Otolaryngologists

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
As a first approach, the book impresses with the hardback cover and the glossy 442 pages. Published in March 2015, the book reflects an effort to deliver the main advances and updates of allergy and clinical immunology relevant to otolaryngology...

Diet quality, noise, and hearing

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric | Demographics/epidemiology, hearing conservation; noise, pharmacology
This is an important article for all audiologists to better understand the relationship between dietary habits and hearing loss. It reports poor dietary habits plus noise exposure may lead to increased high frequency hearing loss. The literature review lays the...

Tinnitus treatment device from concept to commercialisation

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Innovation in the field of healthcare is fraught with nearly insurmountable challenges. Bringing a novel product to the market requires a new (patentable) idea that can be reduced to practice, manufactured at scale, and can pass all regulatory barriers. In...

Can the audiology clinic benefit from advances in virtual reality?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
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...

The development of the Paediatric Arabic Auditory Speech Test for iPad

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Speech in noise testing provides real-life assessments of hearing that conventional pure tones cannot deliver. Rania Alkahtani describes the development of such a test for Arabic speaking children. It also has the additional benefit of being able to be delivered...

A new approach to workplace hearing conservation

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The traditional approach to managing workplace noise has failed - how can we better protect our nation’s hearing using smart hearing protection? Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (ONIHL) is the most common occupational health condition in the world and the most...

BSHENT Annual Meeting 2023

30 November 2023 | ENTA - ENT
Katherine Conroy, MA (Cantab) MB BChir FRCS (ORL-HNS), Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK. The annual meeting of the British Society for the History of ENT was held at the Royal Society of Medicine’s historic Toynbee Mackenzie room. Dozens of attendees, from...

BRS Juniors Day 2025

22 May 2025 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
OCH AYE, THE BRS JUNIORS! A special update from the BRS Juniors Committee Joshua Michaels, ENT ST6, BRS Juniors Committee Member 2024/25 With a successful year of research, development and education delivered by the BRS Juniors' Committee, we had the...

What’s new about the 5th Congress of the CEORL-HNS?

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - General
The CEORL-HNS congress will feature novel ideas for sessions, including debates, ‘basic ENT’ and ‘nightmare’ sessions! The two leading figures of the meeting tell us about the evolution of the congress and future directions. There is something new about the...

In conversation with AAA President, Jackie Clark

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Jackie Clark, PhD, is a clinical audiologist, professor of audiology, and researcher. She is also the new President of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA). While on an annual working trip to South Africa, Jackie answered a few questions about...

Hearing, tinnitus and hyperacusis in the arts

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis are discussed by David Baguley from the unique perspective of their depictions in literature, music, film and paintings. This article provides unusual and invaluable reflective opportunities for the patient-centred clinician! Audiologists and otologists understand hearing...

Drawing pictures and telling stories: treating tinnitus in childhood

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Tinnitus
There is increasing awareness that tinnitus is not restricted to adults. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that some experience of tinnitus in children is fairly common [1]. For many, tinnitus has little effect and requires limited or no intervention. For...