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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,...

Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....

Tinnitus treatment device from concept to commercialisation

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Innovation in the field of healthcare is fraught with nearly insurmountable challenges. Bringing a novel product to the market requires a new (patentable) idea that can be reduced to practice, manufactured at scale, and can pass all regulatory barriers. In...

Endoscopic middle ear surgery for cholesteatoma treatment

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
A critical question when any new technique is proposed is ‘does it work?’ In this article Daniele Marchioni and Davide Soloperto discuss the success rates of endoscopic ear surgery for cholesteatoma. Introduction Surgical management of cholesteatoma is still a controversial...

IOS 2024

11 October 2024 -12 October 2024 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Head & Neck, Otology, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
The 65th Irish Otorhinolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery Society conference was hosted by IOS president, Professor Rory McConn Walsh in Titanic Belfast.

Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...

The impact of simulation on ENT training

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
Surgical training is constantly developing to improve ENT surgeons’ technical and non-technical skills. In this article, Joshua Whittaker, an ENT Registrar and ENT Simulation Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham, describes the rise of simulation training. Simulation is the recreation of...

American Thyroid Association Thyroid Cancer Management Guidelines: utilising risk stratification to optimise patient care

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
The steep rise in thyroid surgery around the globe, has led to the development of risk stratification to define the indications for surgery and the extent of surgery as well as adjuvant therapies for papillary carcinoma, to avoid over treatment....

A global online fellowship in head and neck surgery and oncology

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
The International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS) offers an online fellowship training programme for advanced trainees wishing to subspecialise in head and neck surgery and oncology. Emma Stapleton speaks with the Chairman of the Board of Directors...

A cognitive therapy programme for hearing impairment: reducing avoidance and mental distress

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a psychotherapeutic treatment method, is most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression. Newly published results from a controlled, clinical study demonstrate that an adapted CBT programme is useful for several common challenges in aural rehabilitation;...

In conversation with Dr Narveshwar Sinha

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
‘Only if you hear, you speak’ – early diagnosis of deafness On the occasion of World Hearing Day, Vikas Malik interviewed Narveshwar Sinha, Chairman of IDEAL Charity, a UK-based charity working for the hearing impaired in less developed countries for...

Implants and the identity of self

4 September 2023 | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants
Hearpeers is MED-EL’s international community for people with hearing implants and those considering getting a hearing implant, as well as their families and friends. This group enables people to connect with hearing implant recipients from around the world to learn...