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The inaugural UK Remote Access Thyroid/Parathyroid Surgery Meeting

24 May 2024
Harrypal Panesar, ST3 Otolaryngology, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK An impressive faculty of leading thyroid and parathyroid surgeons from countries across the world was in attendance along with 45 delegates seated in a sold-out lecture theatre. The morning started with...

DP Medical brings pioneering sinus surgery wound healing gel to the UK

9 July 2024 | Contracts & Distributors
DP Medical Systems Ltd. has been named as the exclusive UK and Ireland supplier of Chitogel™ – a pioneering wound healing gel for use in endoscopic sinus surgery.

Soluvos Medical wishes everyone a wonderful summer!

9 July 2024 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Soluvos Medical’s biggest show this year has been a great success. It was great to reconnect with old friends and meet new friends.

The challenges of facemasks for people with hearing loss

7 May 2020 | | COVID-19
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen an exponential increase in the use of face masks. Guidance around the globe varies on the use of face masks as an effective barrier to the coronavirus. Whereas in pre-covid...

MedAudPro: a united front for audiology

19 September 2022
For the past three years, the Network of Medical Audiology Professionals has been bringing together ENT providers in the USA. Co-founder and President, Patricia Ramos talks about her ambitions for the organisation.

Establishing a medical device company: an ENTrepreneur’s experience

1 March 2014 | | ENT
In 2004, while I was suturing the mucopericondrial flaps for a septoplasty, I thought to myself, “there must be an easier and faster way of doing this”. Even though I had no formal training in business or medical device development,...

Demystifying laryngology in the era of examination and collaboration

1 May 2018 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In the field of laryngology, perhaps more than in any other area of ENT, there has been a philosophical shift (as well as a technological one) in the approach of clinicians caring for patients. Albert Merati explains. Progress in laryngology...

The Ewings and paediatric audiology

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Paediatric
Medical historian, Laura Dawes, discusses how Irene and Alexander Ewing were instrumental in shaping paediatric audiology in the first half of the 20th century. Irene and Alexander Ewing were the power couple of audiology in the UK in the mid-20th...

Phineas Fletcher and The Purple Island

12 November 2019 | | ENT
The Reverend Phineas Fletcher was a 17th century poet whose epic poem, The Purple Island describes the anatomy of the human body. Not only poets, but contemporary anatomists believed in two important concepts, correspondences and signatures. They thought that when...

ENT and the Titanic

6 July 2020 | | ENT
One otolaryngologist who perished on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was Dr Ernest Moraweck, a prominent physician with an interest in ENT (and ophthalmology), living in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA [1]. Moraweck was an inventive...

Themistocles Gluck – the true father of laryngectomy

7 May 2021 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Most head and neck surgeons and ENT-specialists may know that the first laryngectomy for cancer was performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873. Billroth´s assistant, Vincenz Czerny, had outlined the operation in experimental surgery on dogs in 1870. Three years...

Vicarious (nasal) menstruation

3 September 2021 | | ENT
Hippocrates himself is known to have said that when a woman’s menses are due, but instead of the usual vaginal menstrual flow, she has a haemorrhage from the nose, then this is a sure sign of pregnancy [1]. Artist’s impression...