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Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...
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Effects of diet and exercise on tinnitus

4 May 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENTA-Tinnitus | Diet, Physical activity, Quality of life, Tinnitus severity, Weight loss
Subjective tinnitus is the perception of sound without any external stimulus. There is no consensus on the aetiology of tinnitus. Obesity is one condition that has been associated with subjective tinnitus. The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial to assess...

Hearing Aid Dispensing Training Manual

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The Hearing Aid Dispensing Training Manual is primarily designed to support those sitting their State Hearing Aid Dispensing practical exams in the US. The book is easy to read, comprehensive and logical in its approach to supporting those sitting their...

Disrupting assumptions: how to teach queer concepts to speech and language therapists

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
Policy requiring speech and language therapy courses in America to include multicultural content in their courses was only formally introduced in 1994. Yet sexual orientation was still considered a controversial topic at this time, and it was only in the...

Minimally invasive surgery vs. linear incision for BAHA – outcomes compared at six months

7 July 2020 | | Neurotology, Otology
The postoperative outcomes which are clinically relevant now in bone anchored hearing device surgery have come a long way over the past decade. The newer techniques have meant that previous concerns with skin numbness and cosmesis are now such rare...

Chemo-radiation in elderly patients with head and neck cancers

1 May 2015 |
Chemo-radiotherapy is the standard of care for organ preservation in stage three and four oropharyngeal cancer, prospective data on patients over 65 has not been available as they are usually excluded from randomised trials. This paper reviews the experience of...

Deafness impact on child development

4 July 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Deafness can affect multiple aspects of a child’s development. This article explores these impacts and underscores the vital role audiologists play in early intervention. As an audiologist, learning and understanding the impact of deafness on a child’s development was an...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Covid-19
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

Focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
In this Trainee Matters, we focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications. Eight accomplished trainees tell Emma Stapleton how their achievements have benefitted them both professionally and personally. Their professional achievements have included a National Training Number in ENT, presentations,...

A binaural detection task that reveals deficits in listeners having ‘slight’ or ‘hidden’ hearing loss

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The association of degraded binaural processing in adults with clinically defined ‘slight’ or ‘hidden’ high frequency hearing loss is of great interest to clinicians if it can be measured. Leslie R Bernstein and Constantine Trahiotis share their findings in measurements...

Hidden hearing loss in humans

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Awareness of cochlear synaptopathy (‘hidden hearing loss’) is growing. Chris Plack gives us an introduction to the condition, defining it and reviewing recent research in humans and animals with respect to noise exposure. The main cause of hearing loss is...

"A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread, The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head"

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
It’s true, the UK’s premier ENT event has come around quickly this time. So, who better to ‘poke awake’ for an article on the ethos and culture of Birmingham UK, BACO 2020 venue, than the erudite Chris Potter, who’s been...