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Royal Society of Medicine Otology Section Meetings Programme 2019/20

29 August 2019 |
by Chris Aldren I’m delighted to tell you about the exciting Otology Programme I have put together with the help of my Secretary, Ian Bottrill, and the Royal Society Medicine (RSM) committee. I’ve tried to make this a very practical...

World Health Organisation Launch hearWHO App

18 March 2019
World Hearing Day is held on 3 March each year. The 2019 theme was ‘Check Your Hearing!’. To go along with this year’s theme, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the hearWHO app. The aim of the app is to...

Braci PRO – Alerts for the Hearing Impaired

25 August 2017 | Audiology - Diagnostic
The honk of a car. An ambulance siren. A fire alarm. The ring of a doorbell. These alerting sounds are used to communicate information of varying levels of importance to us in our homes on a daily basis. Unfortunately this...

Screening for hearing loss with mHealth solutions

1 March 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
With the number of people suffering from hearing loss growing all the time, the need for early detection and intervention is imperative. De Wet Swanepoel discusses two examples of mHealth possibilities for hearing screening which, as a low cost solution,...

Knowledge is power: the power of mobile technologies to enhance hearing-related knowledge

1 March 2017 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
In recent years, the widespread use of smartphones has made it increasingly possible to improve knowledge, understanding and delivery of hearing healthcare. Melanie Ferguson tells us about the advances in mobile-health applications. Think back to five years ago - what...

Innovating around access to hearing services during the pandemic

9 September 2020 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
COVID-19 has also presented its challenges to hearing healthcare providers and to the industry and, similarly, called for innovation and creativity. Dr Bromwich describes how these sectors are rising to the challenge. The reality of COVID-19 has been a challenging...

EUHA 2018 63rd International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians

17 October 2018 -19 October 2018 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants
Digitisation was the focus of the 63rd International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians, held in Hannover from 17 to 19 October 2018. More than 8000 delegates from 83 countries took part. For hearing aid acousticians and manufacturers of hearing systems,...

In this issue...Rising to the challenge of COVID-19

7 July 2020 |
Like much of our lives during this period, our planned focus for this issue was suddenly shifted and redefined by the global pandemic. COVID-19 has realigned our personal and professional focus; this issue reflects some of the journey we have...

Hearing care systems in Europe – can we do more?

1 July 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
52 million Europeans experience hearing loss but many don’t find their way to professional hearing care. Lidia Best looks at strategies to improve the uptake of amplification at a national level [1]. With rising numbers of people experiencing hearing loss,...

Privacy and security in connected hearing healthcare

7 January 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced audiology services across the globe to find new ways of working. This has resulted in a rapid increase in the uptake of remote care and, with it, some new privacy and security considerations. Connected hearing...

In conversation with De Wet Swanepoel, President of the International Society of Audiology

1 March 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Gareth Smith caught up with the new President of the International Society of Audiology, De Wet Swanepoel, about the aims of the society, the upcoming World Congress of Audiology and the current state of hearing healthcare in Africa. De Wet...

Understanding new and emerging categories of hearing devices

1 November 2019 | | Audiology - Adult
The hearing device landscape is rapidly changing, and what should be given, to whom, and why, are questions that many hearing healthcare professionals are asking. Brent Edwards discusses these questions and how consumer characteristics may influence their choice. In 2016,...