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4th Annual Inner Ear Disorders Therapeutics Summit

20 August 2024 -22 August 2024
2024 has been an important year with recent back-to-back positive results for gene therapy for rare genetic hearing disorders and major headways in otoprotective, restorative and regenerative small molecules and cell therapies for acquired hearing loss. The Inner Ear Disorders...

DTR Medical® suction tubes range now expanded

17 July 2024 | Research & Development
Innovia Medical now offers an extended choice of DTR Medical® ENT suction tubes, including Brackmann, Zoellner, Frazier, Oesophageal/Laryngeal & FESS Sinus type suction.

Doctors’ health and wellbeing: depression in surgeons

1 January 2014 | | ENT
Dr Clare Gerada and Richard Jones work for the Practitioner Health Programme (PHP), a specialist service for doctors and dentists in the London area with mental health / addiction problems (www.php.nhs.uk). Here they discuss some of their preliminary findings (specific...

Time to professionalise medical leadership

1 September 2014 | | ENT
For a profession proud of its adherence to an evidence base, medicine has been remarkably slow to acknowledge and to act on the evidence which underpins the value of good leadership to patients and the healthcare system. Mr Robert Francis...

Industry interaction with the ENT speciality

1 March 2015 | | ENT
I was enormously grateful for the chance to articulate my personal thoughts on ‘the industry interaction with the ENT clinical community’. To set a context, the term ‘industry’ refers to medical technology manufacturers and suppliers, in addition to pharmaceutical companies....

HPV and ENT; should we vaccinate boys?

1 January 2017 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Paediatric ENT
David Black and Charlie Hall reiterate Vin Paleri’s pleas for a common sense evidence-based approach by those who allocate healthcare resources to the now urgent issue of HPV-related disease. They discuss the merits of different vaccines and the need for...

Noise monitoring on a smartphone

1 March 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
“The smartphone has more computing power than was used to put the first man on the moon.” Robert Eikelboom discusses the potential of the smartphone as an effective noise monitoring device. Noise exposure and public health Excessive exposure to noise...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...

What’s happened since the European position paper on nose and sinus tumours?

1 May 2017 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
The management of malignant sinonasal tumours has gone through radical changes in recent years. Prof Valerie Lund gives us an update based on her upcoming talk at IFOS. In 2010 when we published the European position paper on ‘endoscopic management...

Hearing healthcare in India

1 March 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
With a population of more than a billion people, and an estimated prevalence of hearing loss of somewhere between 5.9% and 16.5%, depending on which definition you use, India has a significant number of hearing impaired individuals. They are served...

COVID-19 innovations

7 July 2020 | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Otology
The coronavirus pandemic has mobilised medical innovators in an amazing way. We take a look at just a few of the hundreds of innovative products and techniques that have been developed and used in the last few weeks. Some of...

Congratulations to the 2023 OSSEO Student Investigator Scholarship Winners

4 September 2023 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Oticon Medical is delighted to announce that three of their investigator-initiated research collaborators have been awarded the prestigious Student Investigator and Early Career Scholarships sponsored by the University of Colorado School of Medicine.