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Beware of Bicycle Face!

21 January 2020 | Katherine Conroy | ENT

Many of us were told as children that we would get square eyes from watching too much television. But spare a thought for those late Victorian ladies, embracing their first taste of liberty on a bicycle, who were threatened with...

Not just the scissors: the story of Myron Metzenbaum

22 December 2020 | Michael Walsh | ENT

Myron Metzenbaum was born in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) in 1876, the fourth of nine children. As a young man, he worked in the family’s linen store, where his father was well known to be very kind to the less fortunate...

Basic Concepts of Clinical Electrophysiology in Audiology

6 January 2023 | Jay Jindal

Signal averaging principles have been around since 1875, but their application in medicine to enhance biologic signals was first made in 1947 for improved detection of electroencephalographic signals. It took a few more years until the first electrophysiological studies were...

In conversation with Dr Abitbol- a Q&A by Vasasnt Oswal

21 May 2019

Interview by Vasant Oswal of Dr Abitbol, Ancien Chef de Clinique at the University of Paris, France. Vasant Oswal Dr Abitbol Dr Abitbol developed innovative diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, which include vocal dynamic exploration to look at the vocal folds...

The James Lind Alliance – involving patients and their health professionals jointly in setting priorities for research

1 January 2016 | Caroline Whiting | Audiology - Adult, ENT

In a world of patient-reported outcomes and patient-centred care, patient-centred research must also be considered. That is where the James Lind Alliance (JLA) comes in, as Caroline Whiting explains below. Through Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs), it allows patients, their carers...

What does an Olympic medal and surgery have in common?

1 November 2016 | Nikki Mills | ENT, Paediatric ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Competing against female Eastern Bloc athletes in the 1980s was a thankless task, demanding a mulish tenacity in an often futile cause. Ideal preparation for a career in surgery? My path to medicine was unusual, in that I left school...

Paediatric ENT trauma

31 October 2018 | Kate Stephenson | ENT, Paediatric ENT, Audiology - Paediatric

Managing trauma in children often strikes terror in doctors who do not deal with children regularly. Kate Stephenson explains the approach to a child who has suffered ENT trauma and specific things to look for in children. ENT injuries are...

Translating research – transforming lives: the BACO 2020 academic programme

7 January 2020 | Hisham Mehanna (Prof), Paul Nankivell | ENT

The main attraction of any conference or event is, of course, the academic programme of lectures, workshops and education. Hisham Mehanna, BACO 2020 Academic Chair, and Paul Nankivell, Academic Vice Chair, give us an overview of what to expected in...

Reflux – diagnostic tools and special considerations in singers

3 September 2021 | Mark G Watson, Jane L Shaw | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice

Depending on your point of view, laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is either ubiquitous or is over-diagnosed. Are singers more prone to LPR? What are the best tests? Mark Watson and Jane Shaw tell us more. Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR: the backflow of...

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