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Making healthcare conferences green

3 November 2023 | | ENT
Who knew our healthcare conference industry contributed so much to global carbon emissions? This article summarises means to reduce the impact such that we can continue to meet with our peers for educational meetings and networking, but in a sustainable...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...

Preventing avoidable deafness and death from ear disease in Ethiopia

1 September 2017 | | ENT, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT
In the July/August edition of the magazine, we featured an article on humanitarian work in Ethiopia, focusing on head and neck surgery. Continuing this theme, Misha Verkerk tells us about an international collaboration providing otology care and training in that...

Annual Activity of The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians 2021

7 January 2022
The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) is the national association of Auiovestibular Physicians in the UK. The Education Committee and the Audit Committee of BAAP organise a range of thought-provoking events annually. As we embraced a new way of...

The impact of simulation on ENT training

3 July 2023 | | ENT
Surgical training is constantly developing to improve ENT surgeons’ technical and non-technical skills. In this article, Joshua Whittaker, an ENT Registrar and ENT Simulation Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham, describes the rise of simulation training. Simulation is the recreation of...

The big ask – maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit in academic facial plastic surgery in the USA

1 March 2014 | | ENT
en·tre·pre·neur, noun a person who organises and operates a business and who has qualities of leadership, initiative and innovation. In the United States, facial plastic surgery (FPS) services are divided among private and academic practices. The vast majority of academic...

2020 Unmasked: Hidden strengths and vulnerabilities laid bare - By Joseph Sinnott

2 April 2021 | | COVID-19
Masks were everywhere in 2020. The most visible to stop the spread of COVID-19 but others concealed soon-to-be revealed strengths and weaknesses. In April 2020, the UK Prime Minister was taken to intensive care suffering with this new and frightening...

Audiology in this issue... The Changing World of Computational Audiology

5 January 2022 |
Deborah Vickers, PhD, Principal Research Fellow in Hearing & Deafness, University of Cambridge, UK. E: dav1000@cam.ac.ukTwitter: @SOUNDLabCam / @DebiVickers_ / @BEARS_CIwww-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/sound-lab/ Lorenzo Picinali, Reader in Audio Experience Design, Imperial College London, UK. E: l.picinali@imperial.ac.uk ENT & Audiology News Jan/Feb 2022...

In search of courage; transition 
into Army

1 July 2014 | | ENT
In search of courage. Well, that is how it all started. I was fairly advanced in surgical training not to mention age, when I decided to join the Territorial Army (TA). My peers, on hearing this couldn’t decide whether I...

Reduction thyroplasty

1 November 2014 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Introduction Male to female transgendered patients are referred to ENT for reduction thyroplasty – a procedure to reduce the external appearance of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, and feminisation of the voice. Reduction thyroplasty, often erroneously called ‘tracheal shave’,...

VES2 is ready to bring ear surgery into your living room

1 November 2014 | | Otology
The VES2 virtual reality bone drilling simulator is ready and it is freeware! After a long development period we are now able to invite everybody to try the simulator and use it for training, for a inner ear anatomy, and...

Young ESPO’s thoughts about ESPO and the future of paediatric ORL

6 January 2023 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
ESPO, and paediatric ORL in general, has a long tradition of encouraging our younger colleagues. This has led to innovative developments in clinical work, in research endeavours and in how paediatric ORL educational events are run. This article outlines some...