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UK hears its first Week of Sound

6 October 2023
A week of events on the themes of hearing health, the sound environment and musical expression will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 16 to 20 October 2023.

Tinnitus & Hearing Loss Seminar

3 February 2020
Report by: Catharine Crabtree, Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford The Biggest Show on Earth on Tinnitus, held at the G Live Theatre, Guildford, provided a great way to kick off the first day of the National Tinnitus Awareness Week 2020....

Smell and Taste Symposium 2024

30 May 2024 -31 May 2024
The 3rd UK Smell and Taste Symposium 2024 held at the University of East Anglia continued the tradition of exploring the latest in olfaction, gustation and chemosensory research. This annual hybrid event has become an important platform for sharing knowledge and promoting collaboration in the field of smell and taste disorders.

Nuclear heads – and necks

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Imaging of the extra-cranial head and neck is challenging due to the anatomic complexity of the region. CT, MRI and ultrasonography (US) are amongst the most frequently utilised radiological modalities in head and neck imaging but do not always provide...

Temporal bone trauma

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
Introduction Temporal bone injuries represent one of the more complex management problems presenting to the otolaryngologist. This is largely due to difficulties in assessment and the frequent delays in referral, often as a result of other injuries demanding more immediate...

TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Transoral robotic surgery is now a well-accepted technique in malignant tumours of the tongue base. Here the team from St Mary’s and the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital in London describe its use in carefully selected patients with...

Facial pain: the differential diagnosis in an ENT clinic

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
The patient presenting with facial pain can be a heartsink. Fear not – Bhaskar Ram and Sangeeta Maini are here with a succinct overview of the common non-sinogenic causes of facial pain and headache, and how to manage them. Facial...

Staying safe during endoscopic ear surgery

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
There is growing interest in using rigid endoscopes rather than traditional operative microscopes to perform transcanal middle ear surgery. Rigid endoscopy provides a high resolution, wide-angle view of the tympanic cavity through minimally invasive surgical portals. In this article, Elliott...

The ‘bus stop’ incision for bone-anchored hearing aid placement: a step-by-step approach to soft tissue preparation

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-Neurotology, ENTA-Otology
There have been many descriptions of soft tissue preparation in the era when subcutaneous tissue was routinely removed with the Nijmegen technique [1] or with the dermatome [2]. More descriptions continue to evolve with the advent of tissue preservation techniques,...

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: transmastoid obliteration

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders, ENTA-Otology
Sometimes patients with dizziness turn out to have slightly more unusual causes of their problem. Thomas Milner and Georgios Kontorinis describe their technique for managing patients who have a diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence as an identified cause of their...

Public health planning for hearing impairment (2017)

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In 2009 Professor Andrew Smith and Dr Daksha Patel identified the need for awareness of public health methods in hearing healthcare planning. In 2010 the first training course was held, and since then 760 health workers from 41 countries have...

Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....