Archive for the ‘Ear, Nose and Throat’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
As spring and summer bring an increase in outdoor activities, this is the right time of year to be more aware of speech and hearing issues. Typical recreational activities can increase exposure to potentially damaging problems.Experts in the audiology and speech pathology department at The Methodist Hospital in Houston have ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery approved a policy statement concluding that the use of micropressure for Ménière's disease including the Medtronic Meniett® device is appropriate when other medical treatments fail. In the policy statement both the Equilibrium ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
A child spikes a high fever, sometimes as high as 104 or 105 degrees, and sometimes causing seizures. She's rushed to the emergency room, the hospital runs test after test, specialists are brought in, but no explanation is found.Many families though no one knows how many go through this cyclical ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
More than 7,000 attendees are gathering at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC, April 2 - 5, for AudiologyNOW! - an experience in knowledge, science, and technology for audiologists. Along with educational sessions, events, and technological innovations of interest to audiologists, this year's AudiologyNOW! also celebrates the 20th Anniversary ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
A new five-year study at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston confirms the suspected close link between the two most common diseases of young children: colds and ear infections.The study, which appears in the March 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Disease, confirmed the suspected close link between the ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
If a patient develops respiratory problems after taking analgesics, this indicates that the active substances are poorly tolerated. This is pointed out by Prof. Hanns-Wolf Baenkler, Erlangen University Medical School, in the current edition of the Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105(8): 137-42). One should also think of ...
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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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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Professor Howard Jenkinson in the Department of Oral & Dental Science (Dental School) at the University of Bristol has been awarded a grant of 285,000 pounds from The Wellcome Trust to research ways to combat diseases caused by Streptococcus bacteria.Familiar to those who suffer from 'strep' throat, Streptococcus are the ...
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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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