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Lenire®, the tinnitus treatment device, now available in Norway

23 May 2022 | Research & Development, Company Profiles
Neuromod Devices Ltd., has reached an agreement with HØR AS, Norway’s largest private provider of hearing and tinnitus care, to make its Lenire tinnitus treatment device available in Norway.

Neuromod publishes results of second large-scale clinical trial for tinnitus, shows greater improvement of symptoms

7 July 2022 | Research & Development
Neuromod Devices, the medical device company specialising in tinnitus, has published the results of its TENT-A2 (Treatment Evaluation of Neuromodulation for Tinnitus – Stage A2) clinical trial in the scientific journal, Nature – Scientific Reports in a paper titled ‘Different bimodal neuromodulation settings reduce tinnitus symptoms in a large randomized trial’.

Subtypes of vestibular migraine

6 January 2023 | | Neurotology, Vestibular Disorders | Barany society, chronic; dizziness, vertigo, vestibular migraine
The authors argue that the current Barany criteria (ICVD) for vestibular migraine (definite and probable – dVM and pVM) are too restrictive. For instance, whereas a category of chronic migraine with or without aura is recognised in ICHD-3, ‘chronic VM’...
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Lost and sound: exploring hyperbaric oxygen therapy for refractory SSNHL

4 July 2024 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Can hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) offer a breakthrough for patients with refractory sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL)? SSNHL is defined as acute hearing loss of ≥30 decibels in three consecutive frequencies within three days. Typically, it’s treated with two weeks...

From the editor JulyAugust 2022

5 July 2022 |
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 One of the joys of attending meetings and conferences is the chance to catch up with...

Erwin Geising and the fall of the Third Reich

5 July 2022 | | ENT
It’s mid 1944. The allies have landed at Normandy, the Germans have abandoned Rome and are retreating from the Russians on the eastern front. The Fuhrer was in way over his head and out of his depth. Watching this series...

Plasticity with cochlear implants: individual factors in the outcomes

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Otology
Andrej Kral gives us an overview of neuronal plasticity in congenital hearing loss, and discusses why it is core to our clinical interventions in hearing loss and rehabilitation. The brain is born immature and undergoes extensive shaping during early development....

Cambodian otology service – a fellowship with a difference

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Otology
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people, still recovering from a chequered past. In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, most of the medical profession, together with the rest of the educated population, was executed – the fortunate few...

World Hearing Day – country by country

6 March 2023
Hundreds of events took place to mark World Hearing Day on 3 March – the date selected because 3.3 resembles the shape of our two ears.

In conversation with Simone Botha Welgemoed, dancer and model

1 July 2018 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult
In this article, Simone Botha Welgemoed shares deep insights on what it is like to have a profound hearing loss and cochlear implant as a professional ballet dancer and model, and the challenges she faced from childhood to get to...

TEN testing in paediatric patients

1 March 2019 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
Threshold equalising noise (TEN) testing is used to identify dead regions (DRs) of the cochlear. Alexandra Lusty considers the challenges of using the TEN test in the paediatric population as well as the importance of identifying DRs. Diagnosing dead regions...

Unravelling the mystery of hyperacusis with pain

1 January 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
When a person says that sound causes them pain, how can we understand this, and determine what processes are involved? Bryan Pollard navigates us through what is presently known. Pain has long been underrepresented – and often, completely overlooked –...