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The Veterans Hearing Fund

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Dawn Bramham introduces us to the newly launched Veterans Hearing Fund (VHF). This organisation aims to improve the lives of military personnel with hearing loss by providing access to technologies, services and bespoke rehabilitation that are not routinely available via...

Early results of the Cochlear Osia (active transcutaneous bone-conduction implant) in teenagers

5 July 2022 | | Neurotology, Otology
This funded research trial involving 14 adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in the Toronto Hospital for Sick Kids was carried out just prior to the new Osia implant obtaining FDA approval for use in the USA. The majority had...

When dinosaurs ruled the earth

2 September 2022 | | ENT
Optimism is abundant in medical research, but frequently ends up being tempered with reality. In his inimitable style, Chris Potter looks back over his career – starting with his medical school memories of Bentley-driving ENT consultants, and moving forward through...

Personal music systems are causing hearing loss

1 January 2017 |
Sitting next to a teenager on a train with their iPod turned up loud enough for the entire carriage to hear is annoying, most will agree. Perhaps I might educate them about the risks of ‘music’ (if you can call...

Secrets of the listening brain: what measuring the brain can tell us about hearing aid use and more

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
In a typical audiology clinic, on any given day, a person is waiting to see an audiologist to get a hearing aid (HA). It might have taken over 10 years to get to this point of considering a hearing aid(s)...

In conversation with Professor Anne Schilder

1 January 2016 | | ENT
Flying the flag for research in ENT, hearing and balance Anne Schilder is an NIHR Research Professor and leads the evidENT team at the Ear Institute at University College London. She also holds a Chair in Paediatric ENT at UCL...

Sleep apnoea in children with craniofacial syndromes

1 May 2015 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Paediatric ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Whilst snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea are relatively common diagnoses in paediatric ENT, children with craniofacial syndromes take the problem to the next level. Robert Nash and Michelle Wyatt describe the Great Ormond Street multidisciplinary approach to treating this complex...

Genetics WG4. Improving diagnosis and drug development through the genetic understanding of tinnitus subtypes: a TINNET endeavour

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
Christopher R Cederroth and Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez explain how progress is being made to investigate the contribution of genetic factors to tinnitus, including a subtype of ‘extreme’ tinnitus in Ménière’s disease. Genetics WG4 is working towards determining the genetic basis...

Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting

1 July 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the only cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) for which there is a medical treatment available to prevent further hearing loss. Dr Simone Walter discusses cCMV infection, cCMV-related hearing loss, and how to facilitate their...

In conversation with Professor Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen

7 January 2021 | | ENT
Friends for a quarter of a century, Ricard Simo and Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen caught up for a distanced chat about conferences, COVID and collaborations. Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen. I remember meeting you for the first time in Budapest at the 1995 EUFOS Meeting....

Anaesthesia for excision of vestibular schwannomas

27 February 2020 | | ENT, Otology
The ‘shared airway’ relationship between ENT surgeons and anaesthetists is well documented. But ENT surgery and anaesthesia interact in numerous other ways, particularly in complex skull base surgery. What do our anaesthetic colleagues want us to know about vestibular schwannoma...

Cochlear implant referral: how can we do better?

1 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Considerable progress has been made over the last few years in improving access to cochlear implantation (CI) in the UK for children and adults with severe to profound deafness. But we are still not treating children early enough, and we...