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ERS 2025
Get ready to be part of the global rhinology community at the ERS 2025 Congress, taking place from 22–25 June 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. This premier event is set to welcome over 1700 participants from across the world, including rhinologists,...BAAP Mid-Year Symposiums
Surangi Mendis, Consultant in Audiovestibular Medicine, UCLH, London, UK: The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) hosted two mid-year symposiums this autumn. The first took place on 29 September 2023, via a virtual platform, and was on the theme of...CI Advocacy in Action
Is this a world record for the most people with cochlear implants at a conference? Helen Cullington, University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. I was lucky enough to go to the first ever global conference held by the Cochlear Implant...CI Advocacy in Action 2025
ADVOCATING FOR SUSTAINABLE, LIFELONG CI SERVICES GLOBALLY Building on the impact of their first global conference in 2024 in Brussels, CIICA (The Cochlear Implant International Community of Action) will hold a second conference: CI Advocacy in Action 2025. This will...5th Annual Inner Ear Disorders Therapeutics Summit
Coined by industry as the only meeting of its kind and uniquely positioned to share fresh ideas and assess viable approaches to your most pressing preclinical, translational, and clinical bottlenecks, the 5th Inner Ear Disorders Summit returns as a forum to benchmark learnings from past failures, reignite momentum and develop investment into the audiology therapeutic landscape.
“Close” surgical margin in oral tongue redefined, 2.2mm is as good as 5mm
Gold standard treatment of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral tongue remains surgical resection of the primary tumour with negative margins. The primary goal is the complete excision of the tumour with no residual cancer cells left behind. A...
GORD and CRS – is there an association?
This international collaboration assessed 32 papers which had published original data on the experimental, diagnostic, treatment or prognostic association between GORD and CRS. The study aims to systematically review the evidence for a role of GORD in CRS. Case control,...
Snap: do voice patients’ self-ratings match the professionals or the machines?
Self-rating by people with voice disorders and perceptual assessments by speech and language therapists are generally quicker and cheaper than acoustic voice analysis. Reports, with small sample sizes and mixed participant groups, on whether these measures are associated have demonstrated...
Personal music systems are causing hearing loss
Sitting next to a teenager on a train with their iPod turned up loud enough for the entire carriage to hear is annoying, most will agree. Perhaps I might educate them about the risks of ‘music’ (if you can call...
What is the evidence for contralateral tonsillectomy in TORS for known unilateral tonsil malignancy?
The concept of field changes by carcinogens within the upper aerodigestive tract is well established with reported rates of synchronous tumours of 4% and second primaries of 36%. The tonsil in particular has the highest rate of synchronous tumours, postulated...
Is there a ‘best’ ventilation tube?
Studies on grommet materials and sizes are not exactly new but this was a well-designed randomized study in Sweden with some useful findings. The extrusion rate and complications associated with four different ventilation tubes (grommets) were assessed prospectively in 400...
