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Sound Seekers: audiology in the developing world

27 August 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Kavita Prasad, the current CEO of Soundseekers, is an inspirational woman in a leadership role within the audiology world. Here, she gives us an overview of the scope of the charity and the ways in which they improve the lives...

Prof ED Kitcher

1 September 2019 | | ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT Services in Africa [1]. Whilst Ghana has always been at the forefront of healthcare in Sub Saharan Africa, its ENT and allied services were somewhat suboptimal in the 1980s. This article,...

Diagnosis, wearables and remote monitoring in 15 and 50 years

1 March 2019 | | ENT
In 2069 will we look forward to being enslaved by robots, becoming zombies or having our health (and ill health) diagnosed by nanotech? Ajith George muses over what the future holds for us all. The future of healthcare, not just...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Imaging
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...

IFOS 2021: imagining inspirational continuing professional development

9 September 2020 | | ENT
If you expect a virtual presentation to be the same as an in-person presentation, just without the live person in front of you, then you have no imagination. Irrespective of the challenges facing us currently with meeting in person during...

Doctors’ health and wellbeing: depression in surgeons

1 January 2014 | | ENT
Dr Clare Gerada and Richard Jones work for the Practitioner Health Programme (PHP), a specialist service for doctors and dentists in the London area with mental health / addiction problems (www.php.nhs.uk). Here they discuss some of their preliminary findings (specific...

Otolaryngologists and audiologists are invited to learn about and lead efforts to reduce the global burden of hearing loss

3 November 2022 | | ENT, Audiology - Adult, Otology
IFOS promises to be a multidimensional meeting, with contributions from speakers from all corners of the world covering a huge array of subjects. We hear about how the global health aspects of hearing loss will be covered in the congress....

Training in Facial Plastic Surgery in the UK

1 March 2014 | | ENT, Rhinoplasty
Following the Keogh report earlier this year into the quality of cosmetic surgery in the UK, surgical training in cosmetic surgery is high on the agenda. A Cosmetic Surgery Interspecialty Committee at the Royal College of Surgeons is currently discussing...

Matthew Clark: full-time otologist, spare-time sculptor

1 July 2018 | | ENT
Drilling a temporal bone may seem like torture to some trainee surgeons. To others it is but a stepping stone to something altogether grander... I took Art A-level a year early so as not to interfere with the ‘important subjects’,...

Can the audiology clinic benefit from advances in virtual reality?

5 January 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
François Patou discusses how the recent advances in virtual reality technologies can be used to support people living with hearing loss. He outlines some of the novel virtual reality tools that are emerging as resources to support delivery of audiology...

BIHIMA calls for minimum standard for assistive listening systems in theatres

23 October 2023
Most theatres use assistive listening systems, but according to the British Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA), this does not always ensure a good experience for audiences with hearing loss.

Cochlear implant services matter

27 November 2023
A global survey of deaf and hard of hearing adults has found very high satisfaction rates with cochlear implants (CI).