Experts Concerned About Increase In HPV-Related Head And Neck Cancers
The human papillomavirus increasingly is being identified as the cause of head and neck cancers, prompting some physicians to guess that the genesis of the cancers might be oral sex, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. David Brizel, an oncologist at Duke University who specializes in head and neck cancers, said, "A third of head and neck cancers we see nowadays are [related to] HPV...

30th Anniversary Of First Pediatric Cochlear Implant
This July, House Ear Institute (HEI) celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the first pediatric cochlear implant. HEI received FDA approval for a clinical trial in July 1980 to implant three patients under the age of 18 with the single-channel cochlear implant. The single-channel device had been developed at HEI by William House, M.D., in the 1960s and successfully implanted in adults...

Study Seeks Volunteers To Measure Safety Of Treatment "Boost" For Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer
The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Radiation Medicine announced it is seeking patients with cancer of the oropharynx (back of the mouth)) to participate in a Phase I clinical trial. Subjects must be newly diagnosed and not have undergone any previous treatment...

Safe Swallowing Is No Choke
That's the message of Drs. Roya Sayadi and Joel Herskowitz. They are a wife-husband team from Natick, Massachusetts, who are spreading the word that swallowing problems are everywhere - and they can be deadly. "Many people these days know about the dangers of falling in the elderly," said Sayadi, a speech-language pathologist with the Natick Visiting Nurse Association...

Toxicity Increases With Combined Chemo/Radiation Treatments For Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Although the standard practice of treating patients with advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma using radiation and chemotherapy may reduce cancer deaths compared to patients treated with radiation alone, non-cancer related deaths and toxicity problems have been shown to increase, according to a recent study published online in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute...

New Research Explores Relief For Xerostomia Cancer Patients
During the 88th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, in Barcelona, Spain, presenting author S. Pradhani, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, presented an abstract titled "Salivary Acinar Cells Regenerate Functional Glandular Structures in Modified Hydrogels...

A First For The West: Robotic-Assisted Surgery For Thyroid Tumor
UC Irvine Healthcare is the first medical center on the West Coast and the only one in California to perform robotic thyroidectomies, a procedure that removes the diseased gland without leaving a visible scar on the neck. Dr...

Chronic, Resistant Ear Infections Encouraged By Bacterial Communication
Ear infections caused by more than one species of bacteria could be more persistent and antibiotic-resistant because one pathogen may be communicating with the other, encouraging it to bolster its defenses. Interrupting or removing that communication could be key to curing these infections...

Sepracor Reports Preliminary Results From A Second Phase III Study For OMNARIS(R) HFA Nasal Aerosol In Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
Sepracor Inc. announced the preliminary results of a large-scale, 671-patient Phase III study of OMNARIS® (ciclesonide) HFA, an aerosol nasal formulation of ciclesonide, for the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) in adult and adolescent patients...

Diagnosis And Management Of Nasal Valve Compromise: AAO-HNS Releases Consensus Statement
The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) announced the release of a consensus statement to address ambiguities and disparities in the diagnosis and management of nasal valve compromise (NVC)...

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