Hearing loss is not a minor inconvenience in someone’s life. Many patients are desperate and socially isolated by their inability to hear what is going on around them. They are people of all ages united by a common problem – permanent damage to the delicate mechanisms in their ears caused by ageing or by exposure […]
AM-111 – this is an experimental drug, developed by Auris Medical for people with acute inner ear hearing loss, which is a type of sensorineural hearing loss affecting the cochlea, which is the main hearing organ in the ear. This type of hearing loss can occur suddenly, within three days, as a result of sudden […]
No one can doubt that there is an epidemic of loneliness among older people in the UK. The most senior acute care doctor in England, Professor Keith Willett, recently warned that the issue needs to be addressed urgently. Professor Willett told a reporter from the Guardian newspaper that doing nothing would result in hospitals being […]
Many of us travel by air. In 2013 alone, more than 3.1 billion passengers were carried, world-wide, in scheduled, mainly jet turbine aircraft. Of these flights, 840 million originated in Europe and 850 million in the USA. These figures do not include non-scheduled passenger (IT – inclusive tour) operations, commuter, air-taxi and general aviation activity; […]