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Take Early Action to Prevent or Address Hearing Loss

3 March 2021 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
The annual spotlight on hearing loss by the World Health Organization (WHO) delivers poignant messages to both policy makers and the public in order to stress just how widespread and life-changing hearing loss is.

Leaving an impression – OTOSCAN ear scanning solution

1 September 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Every person has uniquely-shaped ears that continue to grow over time. Making an accurate reproduction of the ear is an important part of delivering a customised ear product. From the early 1950s, this was achieved using a paste which set...

Anaesthesia under fire

1 November 2019 | | ENT
Kate Prior is an anaesthetist who has, quite literally, been there, done that. In this article she manages to use words on a page to bring to life some of the conditions and challenges she faced as a member of...

The role of metrics in studies of hearing and cognition

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Introduction When perceiving sounds in real-world listening environments, older adults encounter several sources of degradation that can interfere with the perceptual process (Figure 1). Target signals (i.e. the sounds that a listener wants to focus on) have specific acoustic characteristics...

Human immunodeficiency virus and hearing impairment

1 July 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
With an estimated 36.7 million individuals living with HIV / AIDS and literature reporting that these conditions contribute to hearing loss, it is surprising that more focus and resources are not employed to tackle this major hearing health concern. Yolandé...

Precision and personalised genomic and epigenomic medicine in audiology/hearing loss

1 July 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
A detailed look at the pathogenesis of acquired hearing loss due to exposure to ototoxicity during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Insights from genomic medicine have shown that, along with environmental factors causing epigenetic alterations, hearing loss may be caused...

Ear wax: the good, the bad, and the ugly

2 March 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology
With ear wax removal being a core part of ENT and audiology services, Seth Schwartz gives us his dos and don’ts. We have all seen cartoons where a character pulls enough wax out of their ears to make a candle....

Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments

8 January 2024 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...

Consultation on cochlear implantation guidelines

4 April 2023
A taskforce of 52 hearing experts has released Living Guidelines for hearing care.

Near-miss in otolaryngology head and neck surgery

1 September 2018 | | ENT
It is recommended by John Fenton that we as a specialty need to embrace the concept of, take responsibility for and learn from all near-miss events, rather than our traditional haphazard approach of an occasional educational anecdote or case report....

The ‘umbrella furling’ deflation technique for cuffed tracheostomy tube - a useful tip for an easier tracheostomy insertion

27 June 2022 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this article, the authors describe a quick and effective technique to assist with the maximal deflation of a tracheostomy tube cuff prior to insertion, thus making the process easier with less chance of damage to the cuff and a...

The ear-brain connection: the role of cognition in neural speech processing

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Audiologists and other hearing healthcare professionals have become increasingly interested in the importance of cognitive function in the assessment and management of hearing loss, especially in light of evidence suggesting a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline in older...