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Landmark clinical trial into treatment for severe hearing loss launches

3 January 2022
Researchers at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Nottingham are launching a new study, sponsored by the University of Nottingham, which will inform the most effective treatment for people with severe hearing loss globally (those with...

Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Professor Bill Gibson is one of the great pioneers of inner ear surgery and the recent publication of his biography is a reflection of his remarkable life and career. Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon will be enjoyed by everyone...
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Balloon dilatation of the eustachian tube - largely very safe but not entirely without risk

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Consent is a fundamental part of our daily working lives. This is something as simple as consent to examine a patient, consent to undertake a procedure as minor as taking blood, through to consent for a major operation. Whatever the...

Back to the Future

20 September 2017 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Normally my objective for this column is to highlight an innovation that is already fully realised and on the market. Sometimes it can be fun instead to look forward to what innovations are coming down the pipeline. With that in...
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Communication in the age of universal masking: speech-to-text apps to the rescue

7 July 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of our lives, including how we interact with patients. At this point, it is almost hard to remember a time when we didn’t have to wear masks during clinical encounters. Though...

Erasmus Darwin and the larynx – but why is it where it is and when?

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Charles Darwin’s grandfather was not only on to where we all came from by the end of the 18th century, but dared to declare it in verse whilst resident in Lichfield Cathedral Close. This needed exceptional temerity, since not only...

The first compact auriscope: the 1865 speculum auris of Dr Brunton

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Bringing light into darkness can also be a task for the physician. With the advent of endoscopy (initially by reflecting light into body cavities), new methods of diagnosis and treatment became available to the otologist. In 1865, the Scotsman John...

INTEGRATE: Uniting collaborative research in ENT

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
Exposure to clinical research as a trainee is often sporadic and unstructured, despite it featuring in both the GMC’s Good Medical Practice and the ISCP’s syllabus for all surgical specialities, including otolaryngology [1,2]. The majority of trainees undertake small-scale research...

Monstrous craws and horrid butchery: a concise history of thyroid surgery

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Prior to the foundation of our speciality, thyroid surgery had a dubious reputation and universally dismal outcomes. Jenny Walton casts a critical eye over this dark chapter. Diseases of the thyroid gland have been referenced in historic texts for well...

IEM – no noise is good noise!

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Whether you’re an active musician or a music-loving commuter, noise exposure via music is a very real concern. Musician, sound engineer and Puretone Sales Manager, Deke Frickey, looks at where the dangers lie and the best ways to overcome them....

Detecting cancer margins during robotic head and neck cancer surgery using ambient mass spectrometry

4 November 2021 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
We have known about altered metabolism in cancer cells since Otto Warburg described it 97 years ago. But can we take advantage of this knowledge in curing cancer? Jim Higginson explains the value of smoke generated during cancer surgery. The...

Protheses for patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Neurotology
In February 2003, I met a patient with severe bilateral vestibular loss due to gentamicin toxicity, and I felt disheartened. Despite the fantastic diagnostic vestibular lab we had at Maastricht University Hospital, what could I truly offer her? She had...