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Booklet-based supervised vs. non-supervised vestibular rehabilitation

8 January 2024 | | Neurotology, Vestibular Disorders | Dizziness, physiotherapy, vertigo, vestibular disorder, vestibular rehabilitation therapy
There are conflicting results in the literature about home-based vestibular rehabilitation training (VRT) as opposed to physiotherapist-led training. A randomised controlled trial was designed to interrogate this further. The primary aim was to assess “the effects of a booklet-based exercise...

OBITUARY: Peter Valentin Tomazic (1982-2024)

7 June 2024 | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery, Head and Neck
By Wytske Fokkens & Claire Hopkins It is with shock and profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved friend, Valentin, who left us on June 3rd. Valentin was a bright, kind, and loving individual who touched the...

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

OBITUARY: Professor Heinz Stammberger (1946-2018)

19 December 2018 | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
We, at ENT & Audiology News, have just learned of the death of Professor Heinz Stammberger on 9 December. Within the global ENT community, there can be few people whose names are as well-known as his, and his loss will...

The ear-brain connection in cochlear implant users: learning to listen again

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, Neurotology, ENT
While the cochlear implant (CI) has been a tremendous success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the implantation outcome still varies across CI users [1]. Some demographic factors, such as duration of deafness, and peripheral factors, such as electrode placement,...

George Davey Howells Prize 2019

20 November 2019
Prof Ray Clarke (Liverpool) and Mr John Watkinson (Birmingham and London) have been awarded the George Davey Howells prize for Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery- 8th Edition, published 2018 .The George Davey Howells prize is awarded by the...

New RSCI President-Elect

20 February 2020
Professor Laura Viani has been elected President-elect of the RCSI. Prof Viana will take up office 2022-2024. Prof Viana becomes the second female RSCI President in over 200 years and the third of the ENT specialty. Prof Laura Viani is...

BCIG: Roundtable - Returning to the CI clinic

14 July 2020
On 23rd of June 2020, BCIG organised a virtual round table. 5 UK CI Specialists chatted to the BCIG Chair Helen Cullington about infection control and face...

AOT President, Manish George, highlights the many issues COVID-19 has created for trainees

14 July 2020
It is clear that COVID-19 has created multiple wide-reaching issues for trainees as a whole. Whilst an earlier preoccupation of mine has been to...

Congratulations to our KJ Lee book competition winner!

2 April 2021
We are delighted to announce that Raluca Horhat, an ENT Specialist in Romania, is the winner of our recent KJ Lee book competition, winning a prize copy of Leeway: Reaching Beyond Expectations. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition...

Robotic surgery in focus

3 August 2022
Super Surgeons is a three-part series broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 this summer.

Meet Robyn our News & Events Co-ordinator

13 May 2019 | Personnel
ROBYN COOPER, News & Events Co-ordinator. Robyn joined Pinpoint Scotland a few months ago and would be delighted to hear from you. If you have a course or conference...