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‘What does Sound Look like to You?’ Art competition

6 July 2021
Artists are being put to the test to represent sound in a visual artform, as part of a competition hosted by the charity, Helping Uganda Schools, and supported by ENT & Audiology News and the Manchester City Art Gallery. Submissions...

Vitamin C, a possible remedy for seasickness?

1 January 2015 | | Vestibular Disorders | German Navy, Seasickness, diamine oxidase, histamine, vitamin C
The internet is full of devices and medicines vying for superiority over which one is the best for preventing seasickness. This study was based on the following observations: elevated histamine levels trigger seasickness; blockade on histidine decarboxylase prevents seasickness while...

Cognition and hearing – you can’t test one with the other!

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Cognitive Psychologist, Boaz M Ben-David, provides insights into the import of considering cognitive factors when assessing speech perception ability to maximise intervention success. Failing to do so, he suggests, is “ageist”, a predisposition healthcare professionals must avoid. Cognitive performance is...

International classification of bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP)

1 July 2018 | | Bilateral vestibulopathy, Bárány Society, diagnostic criteria, disequilibrium, dizziness, vertigo, vestibular
In the past few years the Bárány Society have been standardising the diagnostic criteria for various vestibular disorders – International Classification of Vestibular Disorders (ICVD). Diagnosis of BVP relies on history, bedside clinical assessment and objective vestibular tests. The authors...

Booklet-based supervised vs. non-supervised vestibular rehabilitation

8 January 2024 | | Neurotology, Vestibular Disorders | Dizziness, physiotherapy, vertigo, vestibular disorder, vestibular rehabilitation therapy
There are conflicting results in the literature about home-based vestibular rehabilitation training (VRT) as opposed to physiotherapist-led training. A randomised controlled trial was designed to interrogate this further. The primary aim was to assess “the effects of a booklet-based exercise...

Implant patient says it with flour

30 May 2024
So delighted was 77-year-old Graham with his cochlear implant, he asked his granddaughter Lillie Westbury, a professional baker, to bake an “ear” cake.

DP Medical brings groundbreaking non-occlusive airway dilation balloon to UK market

31 October 2022 | Research & Development
Leading healthcare supplies company, DP Medical Systems Ltd, is bringing a groundbreaking, non-occlusive airway dilation balloon to the UK market.

Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy

1 September 2014 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Epiphora, or abnormal tearing, occurs because of blockage in the lacrimal drainage system, which impairs normal tear channeling into the nose. Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is used to treat patients diagnosed with lacrimal sac or nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO). External DCR was...

History of ESPO

31 October 2018 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
Martin Bailey, Secretary-General of ESPO, narrates the story of a society which has promoted and supported the development of paediatric otolaryngology in Europe. In the early 1950s, pioneers in paediatric otorhinolaryngology became active in European countries such as Poland, Hungary,...

Partial reconstruction of the pinna

1 September 2016 | | Otology
Reconstruction of the pinna is one of the most challenging procedures in facial plastic surgery. Although there has been significant progress since one of the earliest recorded descriptions by Sushruta in 600 BC, the complex three-dimensional structure of the pinna...

The benefits of mindfulness for tinnitus

2 November 2020 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Mindfulness-based psychological therapy for tinnitus has, in recent times, been the subject of well-designed clinical research that demonstrated impressive benefits. Dr Liz Marks guides us through this field, and advocates for better access and availability of these techniques. Mindfulness can...

Establishing a medical device company: an ENTrepreneur’s experience

1 March 2014 | | ENT
In 2004, while I was suturing the mucopericondrial flaps for a septoplasty, I thought to myself, “there must be an easier and faster way of doing this”. Even though I had no formal training in business or medical device development,...