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Call to enter WHO Film Festival
Submissions for the fourth edition of the Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) are open until 31 January 2023. Run by the World Health Oganisation (WHO), the HAFF celebrates the art of short films as a means of raising awareness of global health issues.4th Annual Inner Ear Disorders Therapeutics Summit
Terrri Gaskell, Chief Technology Officer, Rinri TherapueticsHeld in Boston, USA, this was an essential gathering that captured the growing excitement in both the biotech and clinical communities surrounding the rapid advancements in hearing loss therapies. With the potential to significantly...Global CI Collaborative: Futures Forum - Webinar Series July 2020
In July 2020, the Global CI Collaborative launched a series of webinars to highlight the challenges and learnings COVID has brought to the cochlear implant world. COVID has changed healthcare practice globally, requiring rapid service reconfiguration and novel pathways to deliver cochlear implantation for all ages...PHACON artificial bone models for ENT training
Simulation, both in training and clinical practice, has become an increasingly important facet of a surgeon’s life. The escalating costs of cadaveric material makes synthetic alternatives an attractive proposition but, up until recently, these artificial versions have lacked the material...
Reasons for attending annual hearing aid review appointments
The aim of this study was to investigate what factors influence hearing aid users’ decision to attend or not attend an annual hearing aid review (HAR) appointment. Two separate surveys were created for attendees and non-attendees. An invitation letter was...John Russell’s invitation to the 7th Congress of European ORL-HNS
In his invitation to attend, Congress President John Russell celebrates the confederation’s role in providing one voice for otorhinolaryngology – head and neck surgery in Europe and beyond.
Safety recommendations for ENT surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic
Physicians and other healthcare workers who perform and participate in examinations and procedures within the head and neck region and airway are at particularly high risk of exposure and infection from aerosol and droplet contamination. Authors have developed recommendations to...hearX Group technology featured by BBC Africa
Recent studies show that one in every five people may suffer from hearing loss. It is estimated that by 2050, one in every ten people will have disabling hearing loss.What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...
Is bone scanning still of value?
This is an article from Australia of 109 patients, 83 of which had CT, 72 MRI and the presence of bone invasion on imaging was compared with the histopathology. Bone invasion was present in 44 of 109 resection specimens. Bone...How can we be SMART with virtual consultations?
At the beginning of 2020, video conferencing and phone consultations accounted for less than 1% of all consultations. Now it is probably 70%. Whilst there are many remote consultation solutions available, Tina Marshall describes what the ideal solution should look...
