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Integrating technology into audiological rehabilitation programmes

1 July 2015 | | Audiology - Adult
In the future, the rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss is likely to involve modern information technology. Using the Internet in the audiological rehabilitation process might be a cost-effective way to include additional rehabilitation components by guiding hearing aid users...

Cochlear implantation in Tanzania: the journey and the outcomes

1 July 2021 | | Otology, ENT, Auditory Implants
It is estimated that over 400 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, 39.9 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. This article by Dr Aveline Kahinga and Mr Ali Jaffer demonstrates the effort that has been made...
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Audiology: Science to Practice – Fourth Edition

5 July 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Kramer and Brown have done it again with their fourth edition of Audiology: Science to Practice. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to audiology with both clinical and practical information. This book is mainly aimed at those who are studying...

Audiology and COVID-19

1 July 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, COVID-19 | Tele-audiology/tele-health, hearing-aids, pediatric, tinnitus
COVID-19 affected all clinical services in a very short time, including audiology. This service improvement investigation concentrated on how audiology services in the UK were impacted by the virus and how perception of tele-audiology changed. About 120 practising audiologists were...

Making audiology work during COVID-19 and beyond

26 June 2020 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
‘New normal’ is another phrase that has become synonymous with this pandemic. In this article, consideration for ‘low-touch’ and ‘no touch’ audiological pathways are described for adoption as the ‘new normal’ for hearing healthcare. The COVID-19 crisis has ushered in...

Why and what should hearing care professionals know about cognitive impairment and dementia

27 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Good reasons to care about cognitive impairment and dementia in audiology If asking people what they fear most when getting to old age, it is cognitive decline that is named most often. This comes with the expectation of limitations in...

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

1 March 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, 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,...

Incoming RSM Presidents share their plans for a year like no other!

5 October 2020
It is a great honour for me to take on the Presidency of the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology at the Royal Society of Medicine. We have a very interesting, thought-provoking and educational programme ahead.

OBITUARY: Prof Shanmugam Kameswaran (1923-2021)

10 August 2021 | | ENT, Otology
Professor Shanmugam Kameswaran was born in 1923 and did his MBBS and MS at Madras Medical College, India, under PV Cherian who later became the Governor of Maharashtra, India. He worked as his assistant and left for the UK in...

Patient experience of necrotising otitis externa

2 March 2022 | | ENT, Otology
Necrotising otitis externa is increasing in incidence in the UK and becoming a rising burden to patients and health services. Despite a growing body of literature on this condition, we know very little about patient experience of necrotising otitis externa....

Hearing loss and Alport syndrome

1 May 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Genetics
Alport syndrome (AS) includes a group of hereditary diseases caused by mutations in the COL4A3, COL4A4 or COL4A5 genes. These genes are responsible for the biosynthesis of α3, α4 and α5 collagen IV chains, which are located in the glomerular...

Rehabilitation of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: bone vs air conduction

1 September 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
The re-routing of sound from the deafened ear to the hearing ear has been the mainstay of rehabilitation for SSD for many years. Both hearing aid and bone conduction technology have undergone significant advances over the past decade. This article...