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Medical Journals and The Journal of Laryngology and Otology

4 November 2021 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, ENT
Medical journals have a fascinating history. One early journal, The Lancet, was founded in 1823 and its first Editor, London surgeon Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), had a turbulent life. He lived in an era where quackery was rife and where the...

BAAP Hallpike Prize 2022 – applications open

3 December 2022
The Hallpike Prize is awarded annually for the best project of the past 24-month period (research, audit or review of subject) in the area of audiovestibular medicine.

Call to enter WHO Film Festival

5 December 2022
Submissions for the fourth edition of the Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) are open until 31 January 2023. Run by the World Health Oganisation (WHO), the HAFF celebrates the art of short films as a means of raising awareness of global health issues.

ESPO 2023: keynote speakers

3 November 2022
Delegates gathering in Liverpool, UK, for the 16th Congress of the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ESPO) will hear presentations from several leading names.

2023 Digital EUHA Spring Conference

3 January 2023
Save the date! The 3rd Digital EUHA Spring Conference will kick off on 31 March 2023.
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Redux: a new professional hearing aid dryer

6 January 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Moisture is one of the most common reasons hearing aids malfunction. Whether it is because a patient forgot to take off their hearing aids before jumping in the swimming pool, they wear their hearing aids while working out or they...

Impaired vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain correlates with hearing loss in vestibular schwannoma

9 September 2020 | | Neurotology, Vestibular Disorders | hearing loss, semicircular canal function, tumor size, vestibular schwannoma, video head impulse test
The lack of correlation between the size of vestibular schwannoma (VS) and degree of hearing loss and vestibular function tests is well known. In this retrospective study, the focus was on the correlation between VOR gain of semicircular canal function,...

World Hearing Day 2023

5 February 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a training guide on 3 March 2023 to mark this year’s World Hearing Day.

Churchill, Stephen Poliakoff’s dad and a KGB-bugged hearing aid

9 March 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Winston Churchill was prime minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions: firstly from 1940 to 1945 and then from 1951 to 1955. He was famed for his acute wit, insight and leadership qualities that helped him navigate the British...

Welcome to ERS2023

10 March 2023 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
For ERS2023, for the first time, the ERS board elected a scientific president to chair the scientific programme committee. The ERS board is very happy that Prof Paolo Castlenuovo was willing to take this task upon himself. Here he outlines...

The death of Attila the Hun, a 70s film and Japanese cartoons

4 May 2023 | | ENT
The 6th century Gothic monk, Jordanes, tells us that Attila the Hun, the notorious and allegedly merciless barbarian (who was a prime mover in the fall of the Roman Empire), died of a nosebleed on his wedding night in 453...

Dysphagia

4 May 2023
Natalie Watson, MBBS, MA, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant ENT Surgeon Specialising in Laryngology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK. nataliewatsonent@gmail.com@surgeonsinger Guest Section Editor The function of swallowing is one third of the triad of laryngology. Dysphagia describes difficulty swallowing...