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Metformin, the magical solution!

8 January 2024 | | Neurotology
Both noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and vestibular schwannomas (VSs) pose a challenge in terms of management. Metformin was suggested as a potential therapeutic drug for NIHL when the drug-target interaction data was investigated. Additionally, there are studies which demonstrate reduction...

Soluvos Medical brings laryngology products to their customers!

23 February 2021 | Research & Development
Soluvos Medical is still hoping that 2021 will bring social life, travels and meetings back to normal and that they can finally meet readers again at one of the yet-to-be-scheduled meetings later in the year.

National Conference of the Romanian Society of ENT and Cervico-Facial Surgery, with international participation

15 May 2024 -18 May 2024
Prof. Hesham Negm, Cairo University, Egypt, and Dr. Gloria Monteanu, Medical Faculty UMF and Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania In the heart of Romania, Poiana Brasov is not only an extraordinary place for holding a scientific...

Deafness impact on child development

4 July 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Deafness can affect multiple aspects of a child’s development. This article explores these impacts and underscores the vital role audiologists play in early intervention. As an audiologist, learning and understanding the impact of deafness on a child’s development was an...

World Hearing Day 2024

10 November 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the theme of the next World Hearing Day.

Reflected glory: the race to claim the laryngeal mirror

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
“None of today’s young doctors can start to imagine the feeling of professional helplessness and despair that prevailed before the invention of the laryngeal mirror. Thousands of people died, whom we were not able to help, or even bring relief...

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 2

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
In the first of this two-part series, Martyn Barnes and colleagues discussed indications for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), the surgical objectives and techniques, patient expectations and the risks of surgery [1]. In this second and final part, the authors...

Interacoustics introduces the game-changing Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test

18 October 2023 | Research & Development
For more than a century, hearing aids have been prescribed based solely on the pure tone audiogram.With the introduction of ACT, Interacoustics goes beyond the audiogram, and is now able to address the number one complaint from people with hearing loss: hearing conversations in noisy situations.

The business of audiology: unbundling

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Many professions, such as law, accounting, engineering and some areas of healthcare charge hourly rates in a fee-for-service model. Administratively, this can be a challenge to track hours, bill clients/patients, and collect payment, but this does lend toward greater transparency...

Genomic testing for deafness and its implications

2 September 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Otology
Gene therapies for hearing loss are rapidly advancing and will be transitioning to clinical practice. Here, the authors explain why clinicians involved in managing these disorders need to be aware of these advances. Genomic testing in England was significantly reconfigured...

Cacophony: the art of communicating deafness by Anita Ford

3 May 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Here, we discover the profound exploration of deafness through art by Anita Ford. Her Cacophony series delves into the challenges of communication and isolation. Anita Ford was a prolific printmaker and painter. She studied at Loughborough College of Art, obtaining...

In conversation with Professor Patrick Gullane: My life in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

1 September 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
Fellowship RCSEng 2009. Patrick, as you have recently ‘stepped down’ as Chairman and Chief of ORL-HNS at Toronto General Hospital, what next? Firstly, so often I have been asked why I selected this career path, from a quote by Johnny...