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How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENT, COVID-19
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...

New bone anchored hearing implant reaches clinical milestone

1 March 2015 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Auditory Implants, Neurotology, Otology
A new implant for bone-conduction hearing, BCI (Bone Conduction Implant), has been developed by Bo Håkansson and his team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, both in Gothenburg, Sweden. Unlike most bone-conduction devices used today,...

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Chris Mennan: A patient’s perspective on 
single-sided deafness

1 September 2015 | | Audiology - Adult
Chris Mennan is a retired policeman and started working as an Audiology Technical Officer at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust in 2012. In this article he speaks to ENT and Audiology News Features Editor, Alex Griffiths-Brown, about his...

In conversation with Professor Erwin Offeciers: The countdown to BACO 2015 continues

1 March 2015 | | ENT
The countdown to BACO 2015 continues Scientific Programme Planner, Professor Shak Saeed, catches up with Keynote Speaker, Professor Erwin Offeciers, who talks about the vital balance between evidence-based medicine and experience-based knowledge. We hear he unwinds by playing piano and...
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Redux: a new professional hearing aid dryer

6 January 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Moisture is one of the most common reasons hearing aids malfunction. Whether it is because a patient forgot to take off their hearing aids before jumping in the swimming pool, they wear their hearing aids while working out or they...

The workplace environment and doctors’ health (ENT)

1 January 2014 | | ENT
It is well established that doctors have higher levels of stress, depression and suicide than the general population [1] and most other professional groups (Figure 1 illustrates the factors that can make us ill). In addition they have high levels...

Shooting for Gold: ENT surgery and the Commonwealth Games

1 November 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
What are the secrets to success in your career, sports and life in general? Sharp-shooter Parag Patel hits the bullseye again. I write this article following a wave of summer sporting brilliance, from the record Great Britain 67 medal haul...

Multi-channel cochlear implants: past, present and future

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Forty years since the first multi-channel devices were implanted, who better than Ingeborg Hochmair, who has been a key figure throughout their evolution, to offer her thoughts on the past, present and future of multi-channel cochlear implants? Read on for...

Developing outcome measures for research

1 January 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
There are challenges in developing outcomes measures; Professor Hall presents five top pointers for making rapid progress in developing outcome measures for research purposes. Anyone who has worked clinically with hearing loss will appreciate that every patient’s experience is personal....

Percutaneous fibre guided laser surgery of the endolarynx

7 January 2020 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Occasionally, getting access to the larynx for an intervention can be challenging. Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe a novel way to perform laser treatment in such difficult instances. Fibre guided office-based endolaryngeal laser surgery has developed to be a...

Frederik Dikkers: championing change in laryngology

3 May 2024 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Prof Dikkers shares the details of his journey into ENT surgery, his dedication to treating laryngeal papillomatosis, and his pioneering advancements in button battery safety. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is one of the most frustrating conditions managed by laryngologists. There...

Frederik Dikkers: championing change in laryngology

3 May 2024 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Prof Dikkers shares the details of his journey into ENT surgery, his dedication to treating laryngeal papillomatosis, and his pioneering advancements in button battery safety. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is one of the most frustrating conditions managed by laryngologists. There...