Ear, Nose and Throat News

Early In Life Cell Signals That Tell Where Sensory Organs Will Form Inside The Ear Disappear, But Could Possibly Be Recharged To Restore Hearing Loss

Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue that becomes the inner ear. Patches of sensory structures began growing in spots where they don't normally appear...

World's Largest Meeting Of Ear, Nose And Throat Doctors To Convene In Boston Sept. 26-29, 2010

The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, 2010, in Boston, MA...

Actor Michael Douglas To Undergo Chemo And Radiotherapy For Throat Tumor

Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas is to undergo eight weeks of chemo and radiotherapy to treat a throat tumor. A spokesperson for the 65 year-old Hollywood star of the film Wall Street told PEOPLE magazine on Monday that doctors expect him to make a full recovery. In a press statement, Douglas said he was "very optimistic"...

Dysphagia Found To Increase Length Of Hospital Stay And Mortality Risk

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that hospitalized patients with dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, averaged a 40 percent longer hospital stay than patients without the condition. They also had a generally poorer prognosis. The research is published in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

New Intra-Nasal Cooling System May Improve Survival When Initiated Soon After Cardiac Arrest

A new portable system which cools the brain via the nasal cavity may improve survival following cardiac arrest compared with standard care procedures, particularly when CPR and cooling are initiated early...

Little Information About Chronic Sinusitis Reaches Primary Care Doctors

Facial pain. Nasal congestion. Postnasal drip. Fatigue. These are hallmark signs of chronic sinusitis, a swelling of tissue in the nasal and sinus cavity. The illness strikes millions of Americans each year and is one of the top five reasons patients visit their primary care doctor. Treating sinusitis is difficult in part because it's often not known if the cause is viral or bacterial...

Hope For A Cure For Tinnitus - 'Ringing In The Ears'

The NIH has granted a University of Texas at Dallas researcher and a university-affiliated biomedical firm $1.7 million to investigate whether nerve stimulation offers a long-term cure for tinnitus. Described as a ringing in the ears, tinnitus affects 20 percent to 40 percent of recently returned military veterans and about 10 percent of all people over 65 years old. The U.S...

Amgen Announces Top-Line Results Of Phase 3 Head And Neck Cancer Trial

Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) announced top-line results from a randomized Phase 3 trial evaluating Vectibix® (panitumumab) as a first-line treatment in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell head and neck cancer...

Demographic Disparities Found Among Children With Frequent Ear Infections

Research has documented that ethnic and socioeconomic disparities exist among patients with conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. Now, a new study by researchers from UCLA and Harvard University has found disparities among children suffering from repeated ear infections...

Oral Cancer Detection By New Fluorescent Probe

UC Davis researchers have developed a laser probe for the early detection of oral cancer. A trial with human subjects shows that the device could also be used during surgery to locate the edges of a tumor. Approximately 43,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with tumors of the mouth, pharynx and larynx each year...

Genetically Engineered Herpes Virus Helps Treat Mouth, Neck And Head Cancer

Doctors have used a genetically engineered herpes virus to help treat patients suffering from mouth, neck and head cancer. In a trial run by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, 17 patients were given injections of the virus, as well as being treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy...

Annual Meeting Supplement Now Available For Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery

The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, in Boston, MA. The official abstract supplement for the annual meeting is now available here with the regular August 2010 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery...

Report Examines Relationship Between Nasal Zinc Gels And Loss Of Sense Of Smell

An evaluation of 25 patients and a review of reports of clinical, biological and experimental data suggest that over-the-counter, homeopathic nasal zinc therapies may be associated with a reduced sense of smell, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

Socioeconomic Status Not Associated With Access To Cochlear Implants

Poor children with hearing loss appear to have equal access to cochlear implantation, but have more complications and worse compliance with follow-up regimens than children with higher socioeconomic status, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

Herpes Virus Treats Head And Neck Cancer Patients

A genetically engineered cold sore virus has been used to treat head and neck cancer patients in a Phase I/II clinical trial run by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. The herpes simplex virus, known as OncoVEX and owned by BioVex Inc, had been modified so it multiplies inside cancer cells but not healthy cells...

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...

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