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The role of significant others in hearing aid adoption

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults and its prevalence is found to increase with age. Over the years, amplification technology has advanced significantly from analogue to digital signal processing. Despite this,...
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Can surgery make you a better driver?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Cognitive function, Driving, Driving simulation, Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), Surgery
Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition that can have far reaching health, economic and safety implications for the individual inflicted with the condition, as well as those in their immediate and wider surroundings. Having the freedom to drive taken away...

Meeting myself coming back

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - ENT
Sometimes, it can seem like trainers and trainees are separate entities, inhabiting separate worlds, in two separate spheres of experience. However, trainees become trainers, and there is always a period where the trainer has only just stopped being the trainee....

Audiology Training – Time to change our Spots? A student’s perspective of the Scientist Training Programme

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In the “Just-so Stories”, the accomplished wordsmith Rudyard Kipling details how the leopard got his spots. Which concludes that the leopard will never change his appearance again as he is quite content just the way he is. The former degree...

How useful is AHI?

1 September 2017 | | Obstructive sleep apnea, Pittsburgh sleep quality index, Quality of life, WHOQOL-BREF
There is a growing unease in the sleep medicine world about the usefulness of the apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI). Most of our objective evidence about obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is in some way related to the AHI, and the respiratory physicians...

Psychogenic vestibular disorders: understanding and management

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
‘Psychogenic vestibular disorders’, also known as ‘functional vertigo and dizziness’, are common causes of dizziness and balance difficulty. Although our understanding of their underlying pathophysiology remains incomplete, Drs Diego Kaski and Amy Edwards outline how early identification and positive diagnosis...

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

The astronomer’s nose: Tycho Brahe’s controversial prosthesis

24 July 2017 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) is a familiar and colourful figure in the history of science. The immense quantity of data he collected during his lifetime would enable the work of Johannes Kepler and has gained him admission to the astronomical pantheon....

From the editor Mar/Apr 2025

4 March 2025 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk For Ent & Audiology News Mar/Apr 2025, we feature a wonderful interview with one of the most respected and...

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Our irrepressible Features Editor, Chris Potter, explores the limits of ignorance. I’m not sure about you, but I seem to exist in a sea of incompetence and ignorance, constantly surrounded by amateurish chumps and feckless underachievers. Now, a lesser man...

Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - 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...

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...