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Audiology in this issue...Advances in the Diagnostic Test Battery (Mar/Apr19)

8 March 2019 |
Priya Carling, AuD, Director and Consultant Audiologist,Kent Hearing Ltd, UK. E: priya@Kenthearing.com The 3 March is the World Health Organisation’s World Hearing Day 2019. This year, the theme is ‘check your hearing’ to encourage early identification and management of hearing...

ENT in this issue...FESS - The Stammberger Legacy (May/Jun19)

1 May 2019 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK E: d.costello@nhs.net Claire Hopkins, FRCS(ORLHNS) DM (Oxon),Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London; Professor of Rhinology, King’s College London, UK....

Valerie J Lund made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

5 January 2024
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Valerie Lund who has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to rhinology in the UK’s 2024 New Year Honours List. Awarded by King Charles, the list recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK.

The James Lind Alliance – involving patients and their health professionals jointly in setting priorities for research

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
In a world of patient-reported outcomes and patient-centred care, patient-centred research must also be considered. That is where the James Lind Alliance (JLA) comes in, as Caroline Whiting explains below. Through Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs), it allows patients, their carers...

Why does music move us? Music as auditory signals of emotion

1 September 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Music forms an integral part of the lives of people in all known cultures around the world. In this article Dr Sandra Garrido explains that in fact, our response to music is largely innate and is related to the evolutionary...

The cochlear implant clinic multidisciplinary team meeting

30 April 2020 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Otology
The world’s first cochlear implant clinic was in Melbourne, where multichannel devices were designed by Graeme Clark at the beginning of the cochlear implant era. We are fortunate to hear from Claire Iseli and Rob Briggs, surgeon members of this...

Lost voices – service induced hearing loss on working age veterans

1 March 2015 | | Audiology - Adult
The Royal British Legion campaign for the recognition of hearing loss in serving personnel and veterans In July 2014, the Royal British Legion launched a report entitled Lost Voices revealing that veterans under the age of 75 are three-and-a-half times...

Neural plasticity and aural rehabilitation

1 July 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Neural plasticity refers to an ability of the brain and central nervous system to change their structure and function or their reorganisation in response to environmental cues, experience, learning, behaviour, injury and / or diseases and treatments. Neural plasticity is...

The future of hearing care and the role of audiology

1 March 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
The Clinical Director of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and President-elect of the American Academy of Audiology reviews the status of the present day audiologist’s remit, and discusses the changes we can expect with the changing demographic and behaviour of...

What’s new in implantable devices? New indications in cochlear implantation

1 May 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Otology, ENT, Paediatric ENT
For over 40 years, cochlear implant procedures have steadily increased. Outcomes for patients are improving as a result of modified surgical techniques, a wider portfolio of electrode arrays, advances in programming strategies, access to improved technology and a better understanding...

Military noise induced hearing loss and the Lost Voices report: the evolution of earshot

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Brigadier Robin Garnett gives us a snapshot of the 2014 Royal British Legion report on hearing problems of Service personnel and veterans. The difficulties in assessing and managing hearing loss are reiterated in this article, with an introduction to how...

Alternative listening devices: reaching the places hearing aids don’t

1 March 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
The stigma surrounding hearing aids means that many people who would benefit from wearing them are put off from doing so. Alternative listening devices could provide the solution to this. David Maidment discusses these devices, their effectiveness and the impact...