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

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-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....

Are you ready? How audiologists’ readiness for change relates to the implementation of remote care

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Are we ready to deliver remote care? A question many of us have asked ourselves over the last year. Danielle Glista (Associate Professor, Western University) and colleagues talk through a systematic approach to implementing remote audiological care and suggest gaps...

Adjoin™ bone conduction system

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Patrik Westerkull (PW), Otorix AB, and Ann-Louise McDermott (A-LM), ENT Consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, tell us about the Adjoin bone conduction device, a non-surgical bone-conduction option developed by Otorix. They explain how the product works, the background to the...

Thyroid ultrasound elastography: does nodule stiffness predict malignancy?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Approximately 50% of the general population has a thyroid nodule while 5-15% of these are malignant [1]. A major challenge, therefore, is how to detect the malignant nodules for appropriate, timely treatment and avoid unnecessary, costly investigations for the remainder....

Advances in vestibular function testing

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular function testing has historically been limited by difficulties in testing individual parts of the vestibular apparatus. Jas Sandhu describes new tests available to clinicians that address this problem. Advances in vestibular function testing Vestibular function testing has historically been...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...

Educational audiologists: adding value, bridging gaps

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Educational audiology provides a vital link between health and education by supporting children with hearing loss in educational settings. Joy Rosenberg presents an overview of the training route available in the United Kingdom. Students in lecture. Educational audiologists greatly enhance...

The European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Scientific careers in tinnitus are expanding beyond any single discipline to embrace interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. Natalia Trpchevska and Christopher R Cederroth present an overview of an innovative EU-funded training programme called the ‘European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus’, and...

Ida Institute course makes tele-audiology easier and better

22 December 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
The COVID-19 pandemic provided hearing care professionals an opportunity to review the provision of hearing services. We hear from Lise Lotte Bundesen, Managing Director of the Ida Institute, about the potential of tele-audiology and how it can help to maintain...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....

Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

Hearing in middle-age: hearing impairment, tinnitus and hearing aid use in UK adults

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Hearing loss has a well-documented adverse impact on emotional, social and physical well-being. In this article, Dr Piers Dawes from the University of Manchester gives an insight into his team’s recent work analysing the very large UK Biobank data set,...