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Addressing the non-use of hearing aids

4 July 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
We all know non-use of hearing aids occurs, but why, and what can we do about it? Numerous studies have investigated the challenges surrounding the underutilisation of hearing aids, examining factors such as reluctance to seek assistance, the impact of...

Remembering James F Jerger

5 August 2024
Dr Jerger contributed remarkably to both the scientific basis and clinical practice of our profession. He passed away on July 24 at the age of 96 years. James F Jerger, PhD, was the Founder of the American Academy of Audiology and served as its first president. He was a gifted and prolific writer, a renowned scientist, and a beloved teacher and colleague.

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

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, 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...

What does an Olympic medal and surgery have in common?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Paediatrics
Competing against female Eastern Bloc athletes in the 1980s was a thankless task, demanding a mulish tenacity in an often futile cause. Ideal preparation for a career in surgery? My path to medicine was unusual, in that I left school...

Assessment of genetic disorders: congenital sensorineural hearing loss

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Genetics, ENTA-Otology
Severe or profound sensorineural hearing impairment (SNHI) is a common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 1000 newborns [1]. SNHI may result from environmental causes or have a genetic basis. The genetic causes can be further subdivided into non-syndromic (isolated...

Otolaryngologists and audiologists are invited to learn about and lead efforts to reduce the global burden of hearing loss

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Otology
IFOS promises to be a multidimensional meeting, with contributions from speakers from all corners of the world covering a huge array of subjects. We hear about how the global health aspects of hearing loss will be covered in the congress....

The evolution in management of microtia and atresia

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The management of microtia and atresia has evolved significantly. Ossama Abdelhamid and Amr Abdelhamid explain how a multidisciplinary approach has become standard, with the aim of delivering individualised assessment and intervention that should target functional, structural, cosmetic and psychological aspects...

Cochlear implant care: putting patients in charge

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Should patients take charge of their own cochlear implant care? Helen Cullington presents a compelling case that will provoke discussion in implant centres. Around 1400 people receive a cochlear implant in the UK each year. Patients require lifetime annual follow-up...

The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Neurotology
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...

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

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-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....

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

Central auditory changes in SNHL

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...