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From the editor MayJun 2020

30 April 2020 | | COVID-19
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 We are living in extraordinary times. As I write this message, the COVID-19 pandemic is just...

Planes, trams, and auditoriums: Beware predatory conferencing

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - General, ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinoplasty, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery: Anterior, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery: Lateral, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Predatory conferences are a growing concern. First highlighted in our sister magazine, Eye News*, the issue affects all areas of medicine – including ENT and audiology. With inboxes filling up with flattering invitations to ‘global’ meetings in glamorous destinations, it’s...

Planes, trams, and auditoriums: Beware predatory conferencing

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - General, ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinoplasty, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery: Anterior, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery: Lateral, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Predatory conferences are a growing concern. First highlighted in our sister magazine, Eye News*, the issue affects all areas of medicine – including ENT and audiology. With inboxes filling up with flattering invitations to ‘global’ meetings in glamorous destinations, it’s...

“Oh Manchester is Wonderful”...And other chants you might hear from the football stands or at BACO

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Chris Potter is a lad of the North West, and we see him here letting his bleach blond hair grow out to show us his Northern roots. When I was a lad, Manchester was a troubled city in apparent terminal...

In conversation with Shelly Chadha

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
This year’s theme for World Hearing Day 2018 on 3 March is discussed by Shelly Chadha of the World Hearing Organization (WHO). She explains the importance of the event and how every hearing care professional can get involved and contribute...

Anxiety and acronyms – musings of an otolaryngologist

7 July 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a focus of attention and concern for healthcare workers around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neil Tolley discusses some of the issues. I write this article in mid-May when, were it not for...

In conversation with Professor Valentina Parma, Head of GCCR

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Smell has long been regarded as the Cinderella of the senses, oft neglected by clinicians, the research community and lay public. The Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research looks to change all that. Our roving reporter, Abigail Walker, talks to its...

Out of Africa: Audiovannah audiology clinic in Zimbabwe

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Audiovannah reception area. In 2015 two Danish audiologists, Jenny Pedersen and Nicolai Pedersen, relocated to Zimbabwe and opened a full service audiology clinic (Audiovannah) in the capital city of Harare. The focus has been to give back as much as...

In conversation with Professor Valentina Parma, Head of GCCR

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Smell has long been regarded as the Cinderella of the senses, oft neglected by clinicians, the research community and lay public. The Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research looks to change all that. Our roving reporter, Abigail Walker, talks to its...

Can we prevent chronic rhinosinusitis?

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ is considered by Professor Hopkins in respect to chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition affecting around 10% of the adult population and associated with huge impact on quality of life and economic cost. A...

Loss of smell after COVID-19: a view from the patient forums

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Patient advocate, Chrissi Kelly, founder of AbScent, talks about how the pandemic has changed the way we think about smell loss. The high prevalence of chemosensory impairment as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has shone a much-needed spotlight on...

In conversation with Lawrence Cleary

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Lawrence Cleary is an art dealer and an ENT patient. He is also a recipient of an MBE for his contribution towards establishing the first multichannel cochlear implant programme in the UK. In this article he discusses with Katherine Conroy...