| Ear, Nose and Throat News From Medical News Today |
'Get In The Hearing Loop' Campaign Promotes Doubling Functionality Of Hearing Aids The American Academy of Audiology on behalf of audiologists, and the Hearing Loss Association of America on behalf of people with hearing loss announce a collaborative public education campaign "Get in the Hearing Loop... |
In Diagnosing Head And Neck Lesions, Office-Based Ultrasound-Guided FNA Found To Be Superior Office-based, surgeon-performed, ultrasound-guided, fine needle aspiration (FNA) of head and neck lesions yields a statistically significant higher diagnostic rate compared to the standard palpation technique, indicates new research in the March 2010 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. FNA is a diagnostic procedure used to investigate superficial lumps or masses... |
Proton Beam Therapy Shows Encouraging Long-term Outcome For Patients With Locally Advanced Sinonasal Cancers Proton beam radiation therapy shows encouraging results for patients with locally advanced sinonasal malignancies, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM. Sinonasal cancers are very rare but aggressive types of cancer... |
Pretreatment SUV Associated With Head And Neck Cancer Treatment Outcomes, May Help Decide Treatment Plans The maximal standardized uptake value (called SUVmax) measured from FDG PET readings taken from the primary tumor in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients before treatment is a strong predictor of disease-specific survival, overall survival and disease-free survival, while pretreatment SUVmax for lymphodenopathy is strongly associated with distant metastasis, according... |
Larynx Preservation Treatments Result In Low Instance Of Severe Voice Disability, Nutritional Dysfunction Head and neck cancer patients receiving induction chemotherapy followed by radiation to preserve their larynx have a low-risk of severe voice disability and almost half experienced no eating or swallowing problems, according to a first of its kind study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM... |
Survey Demonstrates That 84 Percent Of UK Pharmacists Prefer Dispensing Preservative-Free Drugs MeadWestvaco Corp. announced today results from an online survey of 100 pharmacists in the UK1 regarding their preference for dispensing preservative-free nasal medications. The survey showed that 67 percent of UK pharmacists have a preference for dispensing a preservative-free drug... |
Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Report Similar Quality Of Life To That Of Normal-Hearing Kids Profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants to help them to hear rate their quality of life equal to their normal-hearing peers, according to new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center auditory specialists... |
What Is Laryngitis? What Causes Laryngitis? Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx due to overuse, irritation or infection. Inside the larynx are the vocal cords. The irritation causes a hoarse voice or the complete loss of the voice. Normally the vocal cords open and close smoothly. They form sounds through their movement and vibration. In laryngitis, the vocal cords become inflamed or irritated... |
Does The Need For Speed Shape The Arrangement Of The Eyes And Inner Ear? New research from scientists in Liverpool has revealed the relationship between agility and vision in mammals... |
UT Southwestern Program Tackles Difficult Head, Neck Cancers When head and neck tumors from sinus tumors to acoustic neuromas attached to the hearing and balance nerve at the base of the skull are located in close proximity to such sensitive areas such as the brain and eyes, they are particularly dangerous due to possible brain injury, visionary risk or hearing loss... |
| RSS integration by RSSinclude |