Archive for the ‘Ear, Nose and Throat’ Category
Monday, December 10th, 2007
During a press conference on Parliament Hill , the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA) urged government to include further study on noise as it relates to toy safety and revise current legislation. With the holiday season just around the corner, toy safety is a pressing matter. In ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Springer announces the launch of a new quarterly publication Head and Neck Pathology. Published under the Humana Press imprint, the journal is the official organ of the North American Society for Head and Neck Pathology (NASHNP). It will be exclusively accessible online. After its launch in December 2007, it will ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
If you're planning to hit the streets and sing Christmas carols around the neighborhood during the holiday season make sure to drink plenty of water, that is. During cold weather, the air is cold and dry, and in turn, can dry up your voice, explains Thomas Jefferson ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Results of a laboratory study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Rhinology suggest that pressurized irrigation of the sinuses in conjunction with a specially designed irrigation solution may offer new options to reduce bacteria associated with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). "Methods for Removing Bacterial Biofilms: In Vitro ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Results of an independent study published in the September 2007 issue of the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery demonstrate that intracapsular tonsillectomies, which use a microdebrider to remove at least 90 percent of tonsil tissue while sparing the tonsil capsule, had lower incidences of delayed postoperative hemorrhage and ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Brain scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how cells in the developing ear make their own noise, long before the ear is able to detect sound around them. The finding, reported in this week's Nature, helps to explain how the developing auditory system generates brain activity in the absence of ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Scientists have discovered a strange mechanism for the development of the fruit fly antennal lobe, an intricate structure that converts the chaotic stew of odors in the environment into discrete signals in the brain.The fruit fly antennal lobe is analogous to the olfactory bulb in humans.Researchers at the University of ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Some people are oblivious to the odor in the locker room after a game, while others wrinkle their noses at the slightest whiff of sweat. Research by Prof. Doron Lancet, research student Idan Menashe, and colleagues, published in this month's PLoS Biology, ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
The update of the ARIA guidelines targeted to scientists and specialists is published in collaboration with GA2LEN in a November supplement of the journal Allergy. The paper concludes to a stronger influence of allergic rhinitis on asthma. GA2LEN running campaign, "Does ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
OTC cough and cold drugs for children less than six years of age should be banned, said a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel. They expressed concern about safety and lack of clinically proven evidence regarding their effectiveness. In fact, the Panel said there is not evidence ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
On September 19, 2007, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) hosted a Canada International Scientific Exchange Program (CISEPO) symposium during its Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO. During the presentation, an invited panel described CISEPO's multi-year international development work that facilitates cooperation among Israeli, Jordanian, ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Fifteen-year-old Kaci Jawegg's family knew the signs and symptoms all too well: It would start with itchy ears, followed by a sore and scratchy throat."I would say, 'oh, here we go again. Everyone's got to stay away from Kaci or they'll get sick too'," recalls Annette Tase of her daughter ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Hearing and balance experts at Johns Hopkins report successful testing in animals of an electrical device that partly restores a damaged or impaired sense of balance.Though human testing of the so-called multichannel vestibular prosthesis remains a few years away, the scientists say such a device, which is partially implanted in ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Results of a survey published in the August 2007 issue of Otology & Neurotology indicates that the Meniett® Low Pressure Pulse Generator manufactured by Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) is the preferred treatment method after diet modification for patients diagnosed with Ménière's Disease in an only hearing ear. The survey was ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
For years, scientists have searched in vain for slivers of the brain that might drive the dramatic differences between male and female behavior. Now biologists at Harvard University say these efforts may have fallen flat because such differences may not arise in the brain at all.Rather, they say, the epicenter ...
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