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Role of intranasal steroids after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

1 March 2017 | | Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Radiotherapy, Sinusitis, Steroids
Rhinosinusitis often follows radiotherapy in the treatment of carcinoma of the nasopharynx. The interval and severity may vary with the dose of radiation and stage of the carcinoma. In this randomised, controlled study, patients who developed rhinosinusitis after radiotherapy treatment...

Benefits of combined antiviral and corticosteroid therapy in Bell’s palsy and the role of decompression surgery

1 November 2015 | | Human
Early use of steroids has been established as standard management in Bell’s palsy but simultaneous use of antiviral agents has variable acceptance. This review article analyses statistically based evidence to settle the issue. High quality evidence from a 2009 Cochrane...

In conversation with Alan Gibb

1 September 2015 | | ENT
Esteemed ENT surgeon Alan Gibb is held in high regard for his achievements in ORL, academia and teaching. In this article he shares his memories of a life devoted to ENT and medicine with ENT and Audiology News Trainee Matters...
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The ORL App: I challenge you to duel!

4 May 2021 | | ENT
'Every day is a school day’ – an age-old saying that is as much a proverb as it is an instruction for allied health professionals. These days, it is hard to keep up with any sort of news - whether...

CI music: seeking perfection, accepting reality

1 September 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Having just read about the challenges cochlear implant technology and music appreciation present, the musician Richard Reed beautifully illustrates the realities of this patient journey. An old friend of mine is an ardent music fan, and completely tone deaf. Long...

Audiology Assistant Apprenticeship – employer and apprentice perspectives

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
To celebrate National Apprenticeship week in February 2021, Keiran Joseph interviewed Caroline Jackson, Principal Audiologist at Children and Young Peoples Audiology Centre St Thomas Hospital, and Audiology Assistant Apprentice, Rachael Allan, about the value of the apprenticeship scheme in their...

Cambodian Otology Fellowship report

1 May 2016 | | ENT, Otology
Further to a Humanitarian News article published in the November/December 2014 issue of ENT and Audiology News (see article here), this is a report of Charlie Huins’ six-month experience as the first ENT Fellow at the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC),...

The father of the history of otology

12 August 2020 | | ENT, Otology
This year marks the centenary of the death of Adam Politzer (1835-1920). He has been described as the Father of Otology [1] and was certainly the most influential person in otology in the latter half of the 19th century [2]....

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...

Deaf identity is not cookie cutter shaped: a CI user in a hearing world

25 August 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Sam Burgess tells us what deaf identity means to her as a service manager in a busy healthcare library, with a cochlear Implant. To begin with, I have been deaf since birth due to congenital rubella. I have not known...

KUDUwave™ Boothless Audiometer

1 January 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
The KUDUwaveTM was designed to replace the need for a sound booth and enable truly portable audiometry in almost any environment. ENT & Audiology News’ own Gareth Smith, Priya Carling and Alex Griffiths Brown met in London to put the...

A place for everything and everything in its place: the practicalities of randomised clinical trials

1 November 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Will this pill cure tinnitus? Bonnie Millar describes one trial that has investigated the possibility whilst describing the path of drug trials in the UK. Background In the last quarter of 2014, a clinical trial (QUIET-1; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02315508) commenced...