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New global alliance brings hearing care to people in 14 developing countries
4 March 2022
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Global Health
A global project from MED-EL will provide access to new ear and hearing care services for almost 100,000 people living with undiagnosed and untreated hearing loss in developing and emerging countries around the world.
Quality of life after cochlear implantation in the older population
1 July 2021
| Aaron SJ Ferguson
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ENTA - Auditory Implants, Neurotology
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Cochlear implant, Cost-utility, Health-related quality of life, Older adults, Quality of life
Cochlear implants (CI) have been increasingly adopted in older adults with severe to profound hearing loss as a result of the growing and ageing world population. There is much interest in the cost-effectiveness and quality of life in CI users....
British Skull Base Society Clinical Consensus Document on Management of Head and Neck Paragangliomas (HNPGLs)
7 January 2021
| Richard (Wei Chern) Gan
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ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
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paraganglioma, radiotherapy, surgery, treatment
All forms of HNPGLs should be managed by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of core members from skull base otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, clinical genetics, oncology, endocrinology, vascular surgery, radiology and pathology. Extended members include neurosurgery, endocrine surgery, nuclear medicine,...
Modified barium swallow studies: what is the radiation risk?
17 February 2020
| Roganie Govender
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Cancer risks, Deglutition disorders, Fluoroscopy, Radiation exposure
A modified barium swallow study (MBSS), also called a videofluoroscopy swallowing study uses ionising radiation to assist the clinician in visualising swallowing biomechanics from the oral cavity to the oesophagus. This procedure is currently one of the best methods used...
Ethnic inequalities in hearing aid use
4 May 2023
| Charlotte Rogers
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult
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Hearing aids, ethnicity, hearing aid, hearing health, inequalities
Recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have once again highlighted health inequalities experienced by people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Our Editors’ Choice paper shows that there are inequalities in hearing aid use and includes the stark finding that ethnicity is...
Which bit of our brains do we need to recognise fear, disgust and happiness?
1 September 2018
| Anna Volkmer
Recognising other people’s emotions is a useful life skill for human interaction in both social and vocational situations. Yet there remains significant debate about which areas of the brain are required to enable us to read and understand these facial...
Academic Achievement Award for De Wet Swanepoel
30 October 2023
Congratulations to Daniël Christiaan De Wet Swanepoel for being one of the recipients of the University of Pretoria’s 2023 Academic Achievement Awards.
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.
Achieving consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation
1 September 2017
| Debi Vickers, Padraig Kitterick
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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,...
Hearing about genes
1 May 2015
| Robert J Shprintzen
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
I have been fortunate in my career to travel as an invited lecturer at many hospitals, universities and professional societies around the world. I have spoken to audiology societies, otolaryngology societies, and university communication disorders programmes in Europe, Asia, Africa,...
Breaking barriers in Uganda: the story of Elaine Mukaaya
1 July 2019
| Cheka R Spencer, Eddie Mukaaya
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ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
More than 9% of sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people live with disabling hearing loss, with children having among the highest rates of childhood hearing loss in the world [1]. Sadly, in concordance with the inverse care law – proposed by...
