Balloon Sinuplasty Helps Chronic Sinusitis Patients
Studies confirm Balloon Sinuplasty technology safely opens narrow sinuses, is economical and highly satisfactory to chronic sinusitis patients.
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Why Some Animals Regrow Hearing Cells, But People Don't
Why those lower vertebrates can regenerate hearing cells, called hair cells, while higher vertebrates, including people and all other mammals, can't regenerate hair cells?
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Link between common cold and ear infection confirmed
The suspected close link between the two most common diseases of young children: colds and ear infections is confirmed in a new study.
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Wired For Sound: Implant Sends Signals Direct To Brain
A delicate surgery that involves placement of tiny electrodes onto the brainstem is helping some people avoid total hearing loss.
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Over-The-Counter Eardrops May Cause Hearing Damage
Certain over-the-counter earwax softeners can cause severe inflammation and damage to the eardrum and inner ear.
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Overactive Touch-Sensing Nerve Cells Explain 'Ringing In Ears'
Do your ears ring after a loud concert?
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One Million Youth In America With Hearing Loss May Be Left Behind
An estimated 1.4 million youth have hearing loss, but only 12% wear hearing devices.
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Americans Want - But Can't Spell - Nose Bidet
The nose bidet or neti pot is used to gently cleanse the nasal cavity and ease the suffering from allergy symptoms, sinus infections or any other sinus malady.
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31 Million Americans Suffer From Sinus Infections
Recent studies indicate that standard antibiotics and steroid nose sprays provide little to no relief of symptoms associated with sinus infections.
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Sinus Problems Treated Well With Safe, Inexpensive Treatment
An inexpensive, safe and easy treatment is an effective method for treating chronic nasal and sinus symptoms - more effective, in fact, than commonly used saline sprays.
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True Identity Of Pivotal Hearing Structure Is Revealed
Our ability to hear is made possible by way of a Rube Goldberg-style process in which sound vibrations entering the ear shake and jostle a successive chain of structures.
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Understanding Tonsils And Strep
Expert explains why removing tonsils can help fight throat infection.
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UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords
Damaged or diseased vocal cords can forever change and even silence the voices we love, from a family member's to a famous personality's.
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Study Solves Mystery Of Mammalian Ears
A debate over how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals have been settled more in favor of bouncing cell bodies.
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Ability To Listen To Two Things At Once Is Largely Inherited
Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear is an important communication skill.
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Nastech Issues Patents For Parathyroid Hormone Nasal Spray
Nastech Pharmaceutical issued two U.S. patents for Parathyroid Hormone Nasal Spray.
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EU Conference on Hearing Loss: understand deafness in children
Working with Palestinian colleague, Israeli Prof. Karen Avraham leads groundbreaking effort to understand deafness in children.
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Starkey Hearing Foundation Launches Hearing Loss Prevention Campaign
The Starkey Hearing Foundation is announcing its "Don't Say What?" hearing loss prevention campaign in May for Better Hearing Month.
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Is It Worth Having Surgery To Remove Your Tonsils?
Adults with recurrent sore throats may benefit from having a tonsillectomy in the short term, but the overall longer term benefit is still unclear, and any benefits have to be balanced against the side effects of the operation.
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Steroid Nasal Sprays Relieve Sinusitis Symptoms
Every year, nearly 37 million Americans suffer from the sinus pressure, nasal congestion, cough and postnasal drip that accompany sinusitis. Doctors often prescribe antibiotics to relieve acute sinusitis, which can develop following a chest cold.
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Nutrients might prevent hearing loss
Antioxidant-mineral combination protects against damage for days after noise exposure.
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One membrane, many frequencies
Research suggests that a thin structure in the inner ear responds to different frequencies.
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Why We Smell Better When We Sniff
Our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell.
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Why we smell better when we sniff
Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell.
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New Action Plan to Tackle Waits for Hearing Services
All other patients with routine hearing loss should be assessed within 6 weeks by March 2008.
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Hearing Difficulties Put Farmers at Greater Risk for Injury
Farmers performed self-assessments of their hearing to assess a correlation between hearing loss in farmers and occupational injury.
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Study looks at benefits of 2 cochlear implants in deaf children
Having two ears enhances hearing. University of Wisconsin Madison scientists are now examining whether this is also true for the growing numbers of deaf children who've received not one, but two, cochlear implants to help them hear.
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Psychotherapy Quiets Concerns Over Ringing in the Ears
Psychotherapy may help tinnitus sufferers cope with the life disturbances that sometimes accompany their condition.
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Recurrent middle ear infections can have a major impact on children's development
Middle ear infection or otitis media (OM) is the most common childhood illness.
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Helium helps patients breathe easier
By combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to increase their exercise capacity by an average of 245 per cent.
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New Equipment for Infant Hearing Testing Approved
New equipment to be used in follow up services for infants born with potential hearing problems.
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Fluid in the Middle Ear Does Not Impair Development in Children Up to Age 11
Early insertion of ear tubes in otherwise healthy infants and young children with persistent fluid in the middle ear does not improve developmental outcomes up to 9 to 11 years of age.
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Some patients dissatisfied following closed reduction of nasal fractures
In a small series of patients who underwent closed reduction, the standard procedure to repair a broken nose, nearly one third reported dissatisfaction with the outcome and about one third said they would consider further surgery to correct their nasal deformities.
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Outcomes comparable for younger, older children with surgically implanted hearing aids
Outcomes following surgically implanted hearing aids that are anchored to bone appear comparable for children younger than 5 years and those older than 5 years.
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Sniffers show that humans can track scents, two nostrils are better
Humans do indeed gain a performance advantage from cross nostril comparisons.
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Antibiotic ear drops favored over popular oral antibiotics for ear infections
A multicenter study on treating common ear infections in children with ear tubes adds to a growing body of evidence that favors antibiotic ear drops over antibiotics swallowed in pill or liquid form in such cases.
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Can The Stanley Cup Playoffs Harm Your Hearing?
While fans try to earn the title of loudest arena during NHL playoffs, even a few hours of exposure to that level of noise can be harmful to your hearing ability.
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Most Ear Infections Host Both Bacteria and Viruses
Ear infections are among the most common diseases seen in pediatric practice.
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Intact Tonsils Triple Risk Of Recurrent Strep Throat
Children with recurrent strep throat whose tonsils have not been removed are over three times more likely to develop subsequent episodes of strep throat than children who undergo tonsillectomy.
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Outpatient Thyroid Surgery Safe for Most Patients
Smaller incisions, reduced use of surgical drains and prophylactic calcium supplementation have enabled thyroid surgery to be done safely on an outpatient basis.
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