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Winners announced for 2024 Hearing Technology Innovator Awards

6 September 2024
Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM), an online resource for hearing professionals and consumers with hearing loss, has today revealed the winners of its fifth annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards™. Through this esteemed awards programme, HHTM continues to honour innovation...

BSFPS Annual Meeting 2023 and Juniors Day

12 October 2023 -13 October 2023 | Facial Plastic Surgery, ENTA - ENT, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery
Haseem Raja, ST4 ENT Registrar at University Hospital North Midlands, and Edward Balai, ST5 ENT Registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. The British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery (BSFPS) Annual Meeting took place in the vibrant city of Manchester, with leading...

Medicine and Seamus Heaney

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
Seamus Heaney grew up in the 1940s. Infectious diseases – diphtheria, poliomyelitis, mumps, measles and rubella – were rife. Stepping Stones recalled talk among older neighbours of ‘a-waiting on’ when they were close to death. Aunts and uncles succumbed to...
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Present and future in myringoplasty

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Tympanic membrane perforations are a common finding in ENT practice. Whilst watchful waiting or formal tympanoplasty are standard options – wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a low cost, safe, in-clinic option to immediately help patients (I hear you...
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The future of fall detection

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Falls are a major global health burden. According to the World Health Organization, they are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide, with adults older than 65 at the greatest risk of a fatal fall. For every death...
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Heard That: does the app live up to its name?

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Ever find yourself in a noisy restaurant, barely following conversation yet nodding in clueless agreement? Considering how loud social settings can be, this is likely a familiar scenario. As gatherings become a regular part of our lives again, so do...

IFOS activities

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
International collaboration is more important than ever, and we hear from Prof Milan Profant about a collaboration that grew out of the very successful IFOS meeting in Paris in 2017. IFOS has developed a new philosophy regarding how to organise...

OBITUARY: Professor Heinz Stammberger (1946-2018)

19 December 2018 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
We, at ENT & Audiology News, have just learned of the death of Professor Heinz Stammberger on 9 December. Within the global ENT community, there can be few people whose names are as well-known as his, and his loss will...

The role of YO-IFOS in enhancing collaboration between young physicians in Europe

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Young ENT surgeons realise the importance of international collaboration – we hear about a group that was formed just 18 months ago. During the meeting of the International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS) in 2017 in Paris, a group for...

Shifting paradigms – how a visionary can change a specialty

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The Tarabichi-Stammberger Ear and Sinus Institute came about because of a close working relationship and friendship between two senior figures in the specialty. Professor Muaaz Tarabichi tells us the story. My first meeting with Heinz Stammberger was in 1988 in...

Head and neck cancer multidisciplinary team

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Why do we have MDTs? Do they make a difference to outcomes? Jon Bernstein explores the whys and wherefores of the head and neck cancer MDT, and wonders where things might go from here… Head and neck (upper aerodigestive tract)...

How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENTA - Covid-19, ENTA - ENT
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...