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HEAL 2024: Hearing Across the Lifespan

6 June 2024 -8 June 2024
This year around 350 people representing 40 countries attended, with about 290 oral and poster presentations. Special sessions addressed a range of global challenges, including Precision Diagnostics and Therapy Across the Lifespan, Empowering healthcare professionals in supporting older adults with comorbid hearing and cognitive impairment Listening effort and Ecological Momentary Assessment.

Virtual reality: the future of surgical training

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
The evolution of surgical education Surgical training has traditionally been rooted in cadaveric dissection, hands-on apprenticeships and theoretical learning through lectures and textbooks. For centuries, aspiring surgeons refined their skills through a structured process of observation, practice and mentorship. The...

ENT Wallabies

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Juggling the demands of elite sport, a boisterous social life on tour and medical academia would seem too much for mere mortals. All in a day’s work for your average Wallaby. Currently I am a Senior Visiting Medical officer at...

Developmental stuttering: a speech-motor impairment with sensory aspects

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In treating patients who stutter, understanding the effects of sensory input (i.e. auditory input) can help to direct therapeutic approaches. Sensory processing has been identified as a contributory factor in several diagnoses, notably autism and ADHD [1], however it has...

CEORL-HNS Academy

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
The CEORL-HNS Academy exists to improve and update knowledge and skills among ORL-HNS residents and young specialists, aiding in their preparation for national and international exams. Exam preparation is sweeter if it can be done in the beautiful surroundings of...

The evolving role of OAEs in newborn hearing screening

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
An admission on emissions from James Hall! OAEs hold an established place in the screening of infants; Professor Hall introduces how OAEs established this position and the advances keeping the test relevant to today’s infant screening battery. Introduction Truthfully, when...

Composing with Meniere’s disease: a personal reflection

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Is a fluctuating hearing loss and composing music incompatible? Professor Andrew Hugill discusses his personal experience of Meniere’s disease and the work that has developed as a result of the condition. As I write this article, I am in the...

Musical hallucinations and audiology

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Many of us will have been stuck with an ‘earworm’ for a day but consider how it would be to have that earworm stuck on repeat, possibly forever. Drs Lauw, Blom and Coebergh review the current literature on musical hallucinations...

Building low-cost high-fidelity simulation for ENT

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology
In this article, the authors describe their ingenious technique to produce affordable yet realistic simulation models for some common ENT procedures. The use of surgical simulation in otolaryngology training has significantly increased in recent years. This is most likely due...

Ultrasonic bone aspirators for internal auditory meatus ‘drilling’ in retrosigmoid vestibular schwannoma resection

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
In this article, the authors describe the retrosigmoid approach to a vestibular schwannoma, using an ultrasonic bone aspirator as an alternative to the standard drill. Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign, usually slow-growing tumours of the vestibular nerve. Management of VS...

Bishop Berkeley and the Freireich experimental hypothesis

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - General
Our resident reporter at large tells us about two of his heroes, both of whom have quite clear merits and foibles. My patients just keep on getting better. You may well point out that under the care of a clinician...

From the editor MarApr 2021

1 March 2021 |
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 Over the last 12 months, we have all been through different phases in our attitude to...