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The future of treatments for hearing and balance: a 15 and 50-year perspective

1 March 2019 | | ENT, Audiology - Adult, Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance paint a picture of what otology will look like 15 and 50 years’ time. Will we still need doctors? Will there still be an ENT news journal? The last 50 years have seen advances including...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Could social isolation be a factor in the link between hearing loss and dementia?

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
In 1802, Beethoven wrote to his brothers Carl and Johann about his hearing loss: “You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause...

Hearing loss and cognition: something to think about

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult
Irace, Chern and Golub propose causal and non-causal mechanisms for the links between hearing loss and dementia, concluding with a discussion of several proactive measures available to help preserve neurocognitive health in older adults with hearing loss. What is age-related...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Genomic testing for deafness and its implications

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Gene therapies for hearing loss are rapidly advancing and will be transitioning to clinical practice. Here, the authors explain why clinicians involved in managing these disorders need to be aware of these advances. Genomic testing in England was significantly reconfigured...

Robotic head and neck surgery: current state of the art and future innovations

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Technology and innovation has provided modern head and neck surgeons with successive generations of robotic surgical systems, fibre-optic lasers, and novel tools which have ushered in a new era of minimally invasive surgery for tumours of the pharynx and larynx....

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...

Endoscopic DCR

31 October 2018 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
In this interesting article, our experienced colleagues describe their favoured technique for performing endoscopic DCR and share with us the key steps for a successful outcome. Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) was historically performed by ophthalmologists for nasolacrimal obstruction using external techniques. The...

Endoscopic CSF leak repair using nasoseptal flap

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Many of us during training or in established practice will have encountered the complication of anterior skull base CSF leak. This can be a challenging problem to deal with and in this article the authors describe their favoured approach. Cerebrospinal...

Gender-affirming voice surgery

4 September 2023 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Professor Ahmed Geneid is a laryngologist and phoniatrician at Helsinki University Hospital and a founding member of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons. Here, he presents the intricacies and nuances of gender-affirming voice surgery after own hospital’s 30 years of...

In conversation with Dr Naufal Kassim

1 March 2014 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, ENT, Audiology - Adult, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Jane and I first met you six years ago, when we were questioning the apparent high incidence of childhood deafness in Tanzania, and it is a real pleasure doing this interview with you. Your contribution to ENT and general health...