Fewer Asian, Hispanic, and Black Children Visit ENT Doctors for Ear Infections
Asian, Hispanic, and Black children are much less likely to see ENT doctors, or otolaryngologists, and receive ear tubes for ear infections.
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Audigy Summit 2021 Took Place June 17-18
Audigy announced that 800 professionals representing independent hearing care and ear, nose, and throat practices across the US and Canada gathered for intensive learning and discussions about the future of the industry during Summit 2021: Momentum, June 17 and 18.
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Coronavirus Precautions: Informing Your Hearing Healthcare Staff Members
Current information suggests that older people and people with severe chronic health conditions are at higher risk of developing more serious illness from COVID-19. This may place hearing healthcare practices and their staff members in a uniquely vulnerable place. Here are some resources for informing staff members on how to protect themselves, their families, and patients.
Is Stark Law Reform on the Horizon for 2018?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a request for information about how to address any undue regulatory impact and burden of the physician self-referral law—commonly referred to as the Stark Law. The request appeared in the June 25 Federal Register, and the deadline for comments is August 24.
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Bad to the Bone: Surfer’s Ear
Working in a Southern California beach community, we often see cases of external auditory canal exostoses or “surfer’s ear.”
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Acclarent Launches TruDi 3D Navigation System for ENT Procedures
TruDi is an electromagnetic image-guided navigation system designed to offer ENT surgeons an accurate, simple, and reliable option for their endoscopic sinus surgery procedures. It is intended for use during intranasal and paranasal image-guided navigation procedures for eligible patients requiring sinus surgery.
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Sensorion to Present Data at ANS Annual Meeting, April 20-22
The data being presented by Sensorion include results from a study of SENS-401 in preclinical models, designed to determine how long after hearing loss onset SENS-401 could be administered, and results from a study conducted in collaboration with the University of Connecticut (UConn Health) of a circulating blood biomarker for hearing loss.
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Clear Digital Media Announces Partnership with American Heart Association
The partnership will help educate people with hearing loss, audiologists, ENTs, and hearing care professionals on heart health and the connection between a healthy heart and good hearing.
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Interacoustics Enters Distribution Agreement with Bertec Corporation
The Bertec Balance Advantage rehabilitation solutions complement the Micromedical by Interacoustics range of balance diagnostic solutions as it will provide physiotherapists, ENTs, and balance clinics with a complete line of balance diagnostic and rehabilitation solutions from a single point of contact.
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Acclarent Receives FDA Clearance For Expanded Indication of AERA Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation System
The device was previously cleared only for adults aged 22 and older.
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Tusker Medical Enrolls First In-Office Patients in Study to Evaluate Pediatric Tympanostomy Tubes
Via an approved Investigational Device Exemption (IDE), the OTTER Study will evaluate the in-office placement of tympanostomy tubes in approximately 300 children ages 6 months through 12 years old enrolled at up to 25 investigational sites in the United States and Canada.
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Oticon Audiology Summer Camp Celebrates 20 Years of Fun and Innovative Education
The Oticon Audiology Summer Camp celebrated its 20th year of providing graduate students in audiology with a unique opportunity to gain relevant, practical, professional world knowledge and insights.
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Registration Open for Otometrics/Audiology Systems 2017 Hands-on Training Series
The courses focus on evoked potential (EP) and videonystagmography (VNG), head impulse testing, and fitting techniques respectively.
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Newly Formed Tinnitus Network Expands Services
Fuel Medical, a practice management resource company with affiliated member sites, and Tinnitus Treatment Solutions (TTS), a telehealth tinnitus care provider, are collaborating to offer expert tinnitus care and tinnitus devices under the name of Tinnitus Network.
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The Final Word: Providing the Opportunity for Patient Follow-up
Dr Van Vliet illustrates how providing better opportunities for patient follow-up can help make the journey to hearing treatment easier and more expedient.
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New Leadership at Otolaryngology Association
James C. Denneny III, MD, has been selected as the next executive vice president/CEO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery and its Foundation
Read MoreCombined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings Set for Next Week
The 2014 Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings—a joint meeting of seven otolaryngological societies—will be held May 14-18, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nev.
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