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ENT and evidence-based medicine: How do they benefit each other?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
How do we assess evidence, and how should ENT surgeons use EBM? Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of medicine based upon high quality scientific research. There are several formal definitions of EBM, the most widely quoted being that of...

What’s new in auditory processing?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Neurotology
Auditory processing disorder (APD) has had a controversial history, stemming mainly from lack of scientific rigor and accepted clinical definition. That situation is now changing. Driven by the huge number of people with unaddressed listening difficulties, basic discoveries in neuroscience,...

Achieving consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The British Cochlear Implant Group’s candidacy working group recently ran a national exercise, working towards a consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation in the UK. Padraig Kitterick and Debi Vickers were instrumental in this exercise, and in the article below,...

From the editor MayJun 2022

3 May 2022 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.net The horrifying situation in Ukraine has drawn international condemnation of the Russian government; as a consequence,...

Per-Ingvar Brånemark: father of osseointegration

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The application of osseointegration has been central to the development of both bone-anchored hearing aids and dental implants. But how did it all come about? Per-Ingvar Brånemark (1929–2014). Image Johan Wingborg. Many hearing-impaired patients owe a great debt of gratitude...

In conversation with Professor Claire Hopkins

3 March 2021 | | ENTA-Covid-19, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
There can be few ENT surgeons who have had such a pivotal role in the COVID pandemic as Claire Hopkins. She has been instrumental in changing the diagnostic criteria, and has been a frequent presence in the media, as Sean...

From the editor SepOct 2020

1 September 2020 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Editor, ENT & Audiology News; Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.net As the world takes stock of the coronavirus situation, we find ourselves in uncertain times. Nobody knows...

Clinical WG1. Establishing a standard for tinnitus: patient assessment and characterisation

1 January 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Rilana Cima and Haúla Haider introduce an ambitious pan-European collaboration that seeks to establish guidelines for achieving best clinical practice for managing, assessing and treating patients with different tinnitus profiles. Tinnitus heterogeneity is the major reason for inconsistent results in...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ear health in the 2020s

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The world is in the midst of a pandemic, and global health is severely threatened by this novel coronavirus which has caused over three million infections of COVID-19 and claimed more than 228,000 lives to date*. Societies and health systems...

The future of treatments for hearing and balance: a 15 and 50-year perspective

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance paint a picture of what otology will look like 15 and 50 years’ time. Will we still need doctors? Will there still be an ENT news journal? The last 50 years have seen advances including...

From patient to performer

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Peter Cawrey lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, with his wife Dorothy. He had a salvage laryngectomy for squamous cell carcinoma in 2015, three years following his initial radiotherapy. Due to complications and a complex recovery, he has elected not to have...

The role of significant others in hearing aid adoption

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults and its prevalence is found to increase with age. Over the years, amplification technology has advanced significantly from analogue to digital signal processing. Despite this,...