Archive for the ‘Ear, Nose and Throat’ Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Don't smoke around your kids, it damages their health. That's the message that is buzzing around the media since Dr Steve Ryan, medical director of the UK's Royal Liverpool Alder Hey Hospital for Children said that one third of the children treated at the hospital for respiratory problems ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
There is no cure for tinnitus - but the British Tinnitus Association (BTA) is helping to search for a treatment that will help sufferers. The BTA are currently sponsoring two students studying tinnitus research and treatment. The MSc studentships are part of the BTA research and training programme. MSc students ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Scientists in the US have shown that listening to a cell phone while driving was enough distraction to cause drivers to make the same type of driving errors as they would under the influence of alcohol.The study is the work of neuroscientist Dr Marcel Just and colleagues at the Center ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
If you cook, you know. Chop an onion and you risk crying over your cutting board as a burning sensation overwhelms your eyes and nose. Scientists do not know why certain chemical odors, like onion, ammonia and paint thinner, are so highly irritating, but new research in mice has uncovered ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) would like to remind you that snoring is the number one reason why couples sleep apart-and your Valentine might be best served by some preventive measures to ensure a good night's rest. The noisy ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
A new and increasingly popular type of minimally invasive sinus surgery exposes patients to only "very low" doses of radiation during the procedure, a level considered to be safe, according to a new study published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.The study's ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
A new study, led by researchers at The Montreal Children's Hospital (MCH) of the MUHC, has revealed that certain over-the-counter earwax softeners can cause severe inflammation and damage to the eardrum and inner ear. The results of the study, recently published in The Laryngoscope, suggest that use of these medications ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) was asked by PepsiCo to provide advice, feedback, and comments on a 60-second commercial filmed entirely in American Sign Language (ASL), with open captions for hearing viewers. The PepsiCo ad, featuring PepsiCo employees, will be aired on February 3, 2008 during the Super ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
"A salt water nasal spray can help children ward off colds and flu," reported the Daily Express. The paper added that a recent study in 401 six to 10-year-old children with colds or flu compared a nasal spray made from Atlantic seawater with standard treatments (aspirin, antibiotics, or decongestants) and ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Investigating Staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus aureus causes troublesome skin infections that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics. People whose nostrils are persistently colonized with S. aureus are at risk of recurrent infections. Investigating nasal staphylococcal carriage in human volunteers, Heiman Wertheim and colleagues from the University Medical Center Rotterdam find that S. ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
The Nerveana Nerve Location System is a compact, state-of-the-art, electronics-based surgical system. It locates the nerve before the nerve is visualized and provides an audio alarm without interrupting the operation's flow. Unlike traditional nerve monitoring, the Nerveana informs the surgeon before, not after, each dissection. It can be used ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
A new study suggests that children who typically receive an operation to insert ear tubes because of ear infections or fluid in the ear may not need it, according to clinical practice guidelines. The research, conducted by Salomeh Keyhani, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Surgery should not be the first treatment for a patient who suffers from obstructive sleep apnea - when the upper airways collapse during sleep - according to an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), this week's issue. Obstructive sleep apnea, a common disorder, leads to loud snoring. Sometimes ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis substantially improve a patient's quality of live in both children and adults, according to two new studies published as a supplement to the January 2008 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.In one study involving 72 adults, patients showed improvement in all six subscales ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Phantom noises that mimic ringing in the ears, associated with tinnitus, can be experienced by people with normal hearing in quiet situations, according to new research published in the January 2008 edition of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.The Brazilian study, which consisted of 66 people with normal hearing and ...
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