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The future of treatments for hearing and balance: a 15 and 50-year perspective

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance paint a picture of what otology will look like 15 and 50 years’ time. Will we still need doctors? Will there still be an ENT news journal? The last 50 years have seen advances including...

Taking life by the throat

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Patients suffering with problems with their voice, airway and/or swallowing can find their symptoms immensely distressing, and their care places a huge burden on healthcare systems. We hear from a world-leading laryngologist on current and future directions. Field of interest...

The challenge of disrupting the hearing care market in the USA

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Barry Freeman, an Audiology Consultant of extensive global experience, examines the business model of hearing care service delivery in America. He discusses the challenges the profession has faced, and proposes some food for thought on learning from other health care...

To make a difference

1 September 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Education and training have a key part to play in the development of leaders of the future; Dorte Hammershøi discusses the educational approaches taken in Denmark and the pros and cons of the methods used. Dorte also explains the BEAR...

New hearing healthcare service-delivery models with connected technologies

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Connected hearing healthcare can improve access to affordable hearing healthcare. DeWet Swanepoel discuss how innovative trends in connectivity and technology offer opportunities for novel and decentralised models of delivering high-quality hearing healthcare. Megatrends in connectivity and technology have ushered in...

The role of prediction and gain in tinnitus

2 November 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Dr Will Sedley is a Clinical Academic Neurologist who has done groundbreaking work in the field of tinnitus mechanisms. Here, he introduces and explains the concepts of prediction and of gain as they relate to troublesome tinnitus. This article focuses...

OTC hearing aids: where are we now?

2 September 2022 | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
The ‘Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act’ of 2017 set in motion plans for a long-debated shift in the hearing care market. In 2021, the FDA released draft guidance which will allow hearing aids in the US to be sold direct to...

Tele-audiometry – a ShoeBOX solution

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants
Access to hearing assessment is a global challenge. In relation to the global burden of hearing loss World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) recent estimate (2013) is that 360 million people in the world have disabling hearing impairment. Two-thirds of these people...

In conversation with Simone Botha Welgemoed, dancer and model

1 July 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-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...

In conversation with Catherine Rennie

10 August 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
Miss Catherine Rennie has recently been recognised as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. According to WES, these awards celebrate the “best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then...

Going beyond patient care: discovering alternative roles in audiology

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
In this article we hear about Husmita Ratanjee-Vanmali’s journey from clinical practice to implementing global strategies for clinical practice, education, and innovation across South Africa, Canada and Denmark. In the constantly evolving dynamic global sector, have you ever considered what...

In conversation with Shahed Quraishi

7 February 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
Professor Shahed Quraishi OBE. The ENT Masterclass® has been one of the most successful endeavours in ORL education and training in modern times. It has now been around for two decades. To mark the occasion and celebrate a coming of...