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Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...

A funny thing happened on the way to a conference – and other stories

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

Gene therapy restores baby’s hearing

31 May 2024
The guest editor of a forthcoming supplement for ENT & Audiology News has helped enable a baby girl born deaf to hear unaided for the first time.

Paediatric ENT trauma

31 October 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
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...

Harnessing social networks - connecting the global paediatric ENT community

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
Hannah Burns radiates enthusiasm and commitment to improving communications across geographical and political boundaries. When the pandemic hit in 2020, she took to social media to share her thoughts and offered a forum for colleagues. In the midst of the...

A surgeon’s perspective on the challenges facing cochlear implantation in children

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Cochlear implantation in children offers a different set of challenges and goals to adult practice. In this article, Iain Bruce, Professor of Paediatric Otolaryngology in Manchester, UK, explains some of the current clinical and research challenges in paediatric cochlear implantation,...

Otological problems in musicians

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Musicians are understandably anxious about their hearing, and recent high-profile cases of noise-related hearing loss have resulted in huge changes in the music industry. Chris Aldren (otologist and violinist) explains. In the recent Oscar-winning movie, Sound of Metal, heavy metal...

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

Anaesthesia for excision of vestibular schwannomas

27 February 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The ‘shared airway’ relationship between ENT surgeons and anaesthetists is well documented. But ENT surgery and anaesthesia interact in numerous other ways, particularly in complex skull base surgery. What do our anaesthetic colleagues want us to know about vestibular schwannoma...

TWJ Fellowship – Toronto 2015: Endoscopic Ear Surgery

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The Thomas Wickham Jones (TWJ) Foundation is a charitable trust with the aim of helping patients with deafness overcome their disability. Striving to achieve this goal they provide educational grants to otolaryngologists and other related audiological professionals working within the...

Barotrauma

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Barotrauma is an injury which is due to the effects of pressure upon an air-containing space. Healthy middle ear cavities and paranasal sinuses are normally in equilibrium with the atmospheric pressure, but if an individual moves away from the surface,...

The role of metrics in studies of hearing and cognition

26 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Neurotology
Introduction When perceiving sounds in real-world listening environments, older adults encounter several sources of degradation that can interfere with the perceptual process (Figure 1). Target signals (i.e. the sounds that a listener wants to focus on) have specific acoustic characteristics...