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Cell therapies for hearing loss

2 September 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Cell therapies could offer a way to repair damage to the auditory system and reverse many types of hearing loss. This article looks at the progress being made.

Obituary: John Noel Gleave Evans (1934-2022)

12 April 2022
John Noel Gleave Evans DLO FRCS, formerly consultant otolaryngologist to St Thomas’ Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, died peacefully at home on 27 March 2022 at the age of 87.
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Neuro-Ophthalmology and Neuro-Otology: A Case-Based Guide for Clinicians and Scientists

3 November 2022 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As Daniel Gold points out in his preface, the idea for this title was borne from the observation that, despite the considerable overlap between the fields of neuro-ophthalmology and vestibular neurology, there is no single text that marries these two...

Misophonia

1 November 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
Decreased sound tolerance is a common audiologic complaint. Unlike the classic characteristics of hyperacusis whereby a patient is sensitive to the frequency or volume of a sound, misophonia is a strong emotional and psychological reaction to a sound with a...

Hearing and balance clinical trials network (HEARING CTN)

1 January 2015 | | ENT, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
About the HEARING CTN The HEARING CTN is a new UK research network focused on promoting research collaboration and supporting high quality research studies, with the aim of improving the evidence supporting the diagnosis and management of hearing loss and...

IFOS World Master Course in Hearing Rehabilitation in Collaboration with the GCC Symposium Otology 2019

28 March 2019 -30 March 2019 | ENT
Report by: Dr Priya Carling, AuD, Director and Consultant Audiologist IFOS in collaboration with SFORL, the French Otolaryngology Society, and together with GCC Otology, held a three-day master course on hearing rehabilitation in Dubai in March. The course was aimed...

Audiology training in South Africa

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many different ways to become an audiologist throughout the world and it is interesting to see how different some of the training routes can be. Dr Cherilee Rutherford, a lecturer in audiology at the University of Cape Town,...

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, 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)...

What’s new in electrophysiology?

1 May 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Steve Bell is a lecturer at the University of Southampton and a member of the British Society of Audiology’s (BSA) Special Interest Group in Electrophysiology. Given the current surge in interest in electrophysiology, both in rehabilitation and diagnostic arenas, Steve...

Audiology research: opportunities, career progression and leadership

1 September 2019 | | Audiology - Adult
A career in research can, at first glance, seem far removed from the clinical world of audiology but is that really the case? In this article Melanie Ferguson explains the role of translational research in bridging this gap, as well...

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,...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...