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Viral induced hearing loss

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT | HIV, West Nile virus, cytomegalovirus, hearing loss, herpes simplex type 1, herpes simplex type 2, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, measles, mumps, rubella, rubeola, sensorineural hearing loss, sudden sensorineural hearing loss, varicella zoster virus
Viruses are a common cause of hearing loss both in children and adults. This article provides a good review of the viral causes of hearing loss and can be regarded as an essential read. The authors divide the viruses into...
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Conductive hearing loss and temporal processing

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, Otology | Gaps in noise, temporal auditory processing, conductive pathologies, hearing aid use
This Turkish study looked at the effect of using hearing aids on auditory temporal processing (the ability of the hearing system to process the temporal properties of a sound stimulus in a certain period of time) in conductive hearing loss....

Hearing loss and social support

1 January 2019 | | Demographics/epidemiology, adult or general hearing screening, behavioural measures, psycho-social/emotional
The aim of this above study was to investigate how perceived social support and the hearing loss handicap may be influenced by residency and demographics. A total of 106 participants were tested, 71 of them with hearing loss. Thirty of...

Meanwhile I Keep Dancing

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-ENT
Meanwhile I Keep Dancing is one Mum’s story of the journey she and her two sons have been on since their hearing loss was diagnosed. It covers her experience of dealing with a multitude of professionals, dealing with making decisions...

First ever World Report on Hearing

11 February 2021
With less than three weeks to go, the countdown has begun to the launch of the first ever World Report on Hearing on World Hearing Day, 3 March 2021. Through the global launch of the report, WHO intends to reach,...

Back to the future: aphasia therapy post stroke

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
When speech and language therapist first started working with people with stroke-related aphasia, they employed a general stimulation approach, the same with every patient they met. In the '70s this changed, and a more tailored approach was developed whereby therapists...

Audiology training in South Africa

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-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,...

What’s new in hearing aid technology? Requisites for successful implementation of eHealth in hearing health care

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Like Eeyore in AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories it appears we all will soon have a personal cloud, but unlike Eeyore this will be something to celebrate! The future of hearing aid technology is in the cloud argues Uwe...

Hearing implant devices: new expectations during IFOS 2023 ENT World Congress, Dubai

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
We hear from one of the senior members of the IFOS Executive Board about the aspects of IFOS that he is looking forward to – and, in particular, his focus on implantable hearing devices. From 17 to 21 January 2023,...

The costs of applying to ENT specialty training

22 February 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
Training doctors is costly. In the UK, medical school costs an estimated £230,000 made up of £163,000 in government grants and £65,000 in student loans [1]. Repayment of the student loan begins once the graduate earns above a certain threshold,...

Audiology in this issue... The Changing World of Computational Audiology

5 January 2022 |
Deborah Vickers, PhD, Principal Research Fellow in Hearing & Deafness, University of Cambridge, UK. E: dav1000@cam.ac.ukTwitter: @SOUNDLabCam / @DebiVickers_ / @BEARS_CIwww-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/sound-lab/ Lorenzo Picinali, Reader in Audio Experience Design, Imperial College London, UK. E: l.picinali@imperial.ac.uk ENT & Audiology News Jan/Feb 2022...