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Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

Embracing deafness and the silent world

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Brian Kokoruwe shares his journey from growing up during civil war in Nigeria to becoming Director of Deaf UK Athletics and a published author. While I am active in the Deaf BSL community, involved in Deaf sports and the Government...

Why one should not be seduced into organising a conference

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Having enjoyed yourself at so many meetings, it may strike you or be suggested to you by ‘friends’, that it would be a good idea to organise an international conference. Think of the kudos, the fame, the financial gain for...

CI Advocacy in Action 2025

16 October 2025 -17 October 2025 | ENTA - Auditory Implants
Helen Cullington, Professor of Cochlear Implants at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service, UKThe second global CIICA conference took place in Brussels in October. There were delegates from 32 countries, and more than 30 participants with cochlear implants! Live...

#BecauseIhearIlive – an international message from Smiling Crocodile

26 June 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
There are 34 million children worldwide afflicted by disabling hearing loss, 60% of whom are suffering from hearing loss due to preventable causes [1]. This article is an account of the Smiling Crocodile Charity, founded in 2009 by Dagmar Herrmannová,...

Alternative listening devices: reaching the places hearing aids don’t

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The stigma surrounding hearing aids means that many people who would benefit from wearing them are put off from doing so. Alternative listening devices could provide the solution to this. David Maidment discusses these devices, their effectiveness and the impact...

From the editor Jul/Aug 2024

4 July 2024 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk Congress season is well underway around the world – with all that’s going on, it’s hard to keep track...

Are we making progress on tinnitus?

23 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
One of the aspects of tinnitus that drew me into it becoming a major theme of my clinical and research work was how little work had been done when I began to see patients in the mid 1980s. This struck...

Cambodian Otology Fellowship report

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Further to a Humanitarian News article published in the November/December 2014 issue of ENT and Audiology News (see article here), this is a report of Charlie Huins’ six-month experience as the first ENT Fellow at the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC),...

Foreign object removal from the ear or nose

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
The range of nasal and aural foreign bodies that present to accident and emergency (A&E) departments, emergency rooms and minor injury units is limited only by the imagination. Aetiology and epidemiology statistics point to patients being predominantly children in the...

How to tell if a bone anchored hearing device is working?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
Bone anchored hearing aids are becoming increasingly more commonplace with more than 120,000 users worldwide. These devices are based on the principle of direct bone conduction, where sound is transmitted directly through the skull via a titanium implant to the...

Professor Hugh Montgomery

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
BACO International 2018 has some truly astonishing speakers, but perhaps none more astonishing than Hugh Montgomery. His friend and colleague David Howard chatted with him about some of his diverse interests. Prof Hugh Montgomery. Prof Hugh Montgomery will be giving...