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From the editor November/December 2023

3 November 2023 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTw: @Voicedoctor_uk There can be no more pressing and worrying issue in the global consciousness than climate change. The alarming rise of disinformation...

What does an Olympic medal and surgery have in common?

1 November 2016 | | 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...

Audiological and psychological consequences of single-sided deafness

1 September 2015 | | Audiology - Adult
The loss of sound input from one ear has a significant impact on our perception of our acoustic environment. This impact is compounded in adverse listening conditions. Rachel Knappett’s article explores the audiological impact of this hearing loss and the...

Universal newborn hearing screening: a global health perspective

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
Intuitively, as health professionals, we know that universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) makes sense. Bolajoko Olusanya outlines how UNHS fits in with global health priorities, as well as illustrating how such programmes can help to deliver additional benefits to communities....

In conversation with Prof Metin Önerci

30 April 2020 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Prof Valerie Lund caught up with friend and colleague, Prof Dr Metin Önerci, to discuss his various positions in rhinology, the FOAM programme with which he is involved, and rhinology in Turkey and the Balkan and the Central Asian region....

Cancer genetics and signalling pathways in ENT – a review and discussion of how this can be applied to rare tumours

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Genetics
Introduction Cancer cases continue to increase worldwide, and­­ head and neck cancer is a major global health issue, with an estimated global burden of over 630,000 new cases and over 350,000 deaths per year [1]. The term ‘head and neck...

Sound Seekers: audiology in the developing world

27 August 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Kavita Prasad, the current CEO of Soundseekers, is an inspirational woman in a leadership role within the audiology world. Here, she gives us an overview of the scope of the charity and the ways in which they improve the lives...

Head and neck cancer and PET-CT

1 May 2014 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is an imaging technique in which abnormalities of tissue metabolism are precisely superimposed onto the anatomy. It relies on the premise that malignant cells are more metabolically active compared with non-malignant cells. On this basis,...

Genetic discovery using animal models: presbyacusis

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Genetics, Otology
By their very nature, late-onset hereditary disorders offer a large window of opportunity for therapeutic intervention. However, before we can begin to think about strategies we need knowledge of the genetics and pathology underlying the condition. In this article we...

History of photography in otorhinolaryngology in the 19th Century

1 September 2015 | | ENT
In this final article of the History of ENT edition, João Clode introduces us to the history of medical photography in the 19th century, giving us some fascinating early examples of otorhinolaryngology photographs. Medical photography – the early years The...

Securing the future of ENT in the UK

1 November 2017 |
A career in otolaryngology is fascinating, fulfilling and fun, but how do we convince our potential successors? Jay Doshi, Asad Qayyum, Bradley Storey and Tom Milner outline the fantastic efforts to showcase ENT throughout the UK. Student and foundation doctors...

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Introduction The introduction of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) in the early 1980s provided children and adults with severe and profound hearing losses with greatly improved speech perception skills. In this paper, however, I am going to focus on an area...