BBC News Nafsika, a teacher at the school, has been trained to carry out the hearing checks Children and young people in England with special educational needs, including severe autism, are to be offered NHS eyesight, dental and ear checks in their schools from next year. Students with learning disabilities can struggle to say when … Read more
Washington : An artificial intelligence model was shown to be significantly more accurate than doctors at diagnosing pediatric ear infections in the first head-to-head evaluation of its kind. The tool, called OtoDx, was more than 95 per cent accurate in diagnosing an ear infection in a set of 22 test images compared to 65 per … Read more
Since 2018, removal of ear wax is not on the list of core services that GP surgeries must offer. Source link
“The age of children in the study … coincides with what’s felt to be the sensitive period for speech and language development,” Cosetti said. Unlike antibiotics, she explained, ear tubes “may provide immediate relief from hearing loss related to middle-ear fluid — the value of which may be difficult to quantify in the current … Read more