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Plasticity with cochlear implants: individual factors in the outcomes

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Andrej Kral gives us an overview of neuronal plasticity in congenital hearing loss, and discusses why it is core to our clinical interventions in hearing loss and rehabilitation. The brain is born immature and undergoes extensive shaping during early development....

Ultramarathons, frostbite and running with wolves

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
“I could just keep going when most sane people would stop”- the secret to success in head and neck surgery? In August 2015 I crossed the finish line of La Ultra - The High. A small camp of tents and...

In conversation with David Stockdale

27 April 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Otology
David Stockdale is stepping away from the British Tinnitus Association (BTA) after 12 years, during which time the organisation has become transformed. Prof David Baguley met with David in the spring sunshine to reflect on past, present and future of...

Global CI Collaborative: Futures Forum - Webinar Series July 2020

5 October 2020
In July 2020, the Global CI Collaborative launched a series of webinars to highlight the challenges and learnings COVID has brought to the cochlear implant world. COVID has changed healthcare practice globally, requiring rapid service reconfiguration and novel pathways to deliver cochlear implantation for all ages...

2022 Hearing Technology Innovator Awards

6 June 2022
Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM), an online resource for hearing professionals and consumers with hearing loss, has announced a call for submissions for the third annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards™. Through the annual awards programme, HHTM honours technological innovation...

The costs of applying to ENT specialty training

22 February 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
Training doctors is costly. In the UK, medical school costs an estimated £230,000 made up of £163,000 in government grants and £65,000 in student loans [1]. Repayment of the student loan begins once the graduate earns above a certain threshold,...

3rd Alder Hey Paediatric Vestibular Course

23 September 2019 -24 September 2019
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Paediatric Audiovestibular Department presents 3rdAlder Hey Paediatric Vestibular Course. The vestibular system in children is an important system significantly involved in the development of balance, muscle tone, posture, spatial and cognitive orientation and overall development. We...

In conversation with Simone Botha Welgemoed, dancer and model

1 July 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
In this article, Simone Botha Welgemoed shares deep insights on what it is like to have a profound hearing loss and cochlear implant as a professional ballet dancer and model, and the challenges she faced from childhood to get to...

ENT in this issue - Global rhinology: ERS2023

10 March 2023
Prof Dr Wytske Fokkens, MD, PhD, General Secretary ERS; Professor, Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This issue of ENT & Audiology News centres around the ERS Congress taking place in Sofia in June this year....

CEORL-HNS 2022 - 6th Congress of European ORL Head and Neck Surgery

29 October 2022 -2 November 2022 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, Paediatric ENT
This sixth edition of the Congress of the Confederation of European Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery was a mixture of all the ENT sub-specialities. It was a real opportunity to strengthen international relationships with a backdrop of an intense and...

The challenge of disrupting the hearing care market in the USA

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Barry Freeman, an Audiology Consultant of extensive global experience, examines the business model of hearing care service delivery in America. He discusses the challenges the profession has faced, and proposes some food for thought on learning from other health care...

Use of a diode laser for the removal of a frontal sinus osteoma

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
In this How I Do It, Professor Sergei Karpischenko introduces a gentle method of reduction of mobilised frontal sinus osteoma which has been successfully used in five patients in his university clinic using a diode laser in contact mode. Osteoma...