BTA Blog
A Great Step Forward
Tinnitus Awareness Week 2012 is up and running and things are going really well.
The planning started months ago, we wanted to come up with a theme that would get lots of support, something emotive...
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Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference
The 2011 meeting of the Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) was held in Buffalo, Niagara with over 200 participants from 26 countries in attendance. For those of you unfamiliar with the TRI, I would...
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Enjoying the music
I’m very fortunate to live and work in the city of Sheffield. Not only is it one of the greenest (and hilliest) cities in the country, with the beautiful Peak District on the doorstep, it’...
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Reflections on a tinnitus support group
The first meeting of the Aintree Tinnitus Support Group was held in April 2008. Three years on I feel it timely to reflect back on the journey.
The benefits of support groups have been well documented...
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A busy week!
The BTA places a huge importance on communication – and the quality of our communication. We communicate with the tinnitus community in many ways, using both traditional media and the “new...
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Eddy's Tinnitus Awareness Week Diary - The Last Day
Today is the final day of Tinnitus Awareness Week, so those with tinnitus can finally go back to that zone of deliberate un-awareness and exhale deeply.
Looking back on the past seven days, I have...
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Eddy's Tinnitus Awareness Week Diary - Day 3, Part 2
So, its done and I'm back on the Tube, heading in the opposite direction from the one I was when we last spoke.
Christ that was nerve wracking.
I sat through two speeches by two very clever...
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Eddy's Tinnitus Awareness Week Diary - Day 3, Part 1
I should have worn my brown trousers today. Actually, I don't have any brown trousers, but am regretting that sartorial chromatic decision now, as I sit on a tube train, heading for Oxford Circus...
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Eddy's Tinnitus Awareness Week Diary - Day 2
I'm more of the Groucho Marx opinion that I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me as a member...but one day, through the marvellous Head Gardener of The Secret Garden Party, a...
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Eddy's Tinnitus Awareness Week Diary - Day 1
Ironically it was bad last night. I was up till 3am with a combination of raging tinnitus and electric excitement with a project I'm always working on this time of year, the booking of the dance...
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