Best Sinus Treatments By INGFEI CHEN, NYT, May 25, 2011 What’s the best treatment for sinus troubles that won’t go away? Ingfei Chen, health reporter, interviews Dr. Noam A. Cohen and Dr. James N. Palmer of the Rhinology Research Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who are exploring the role of communities of bacteria called […]
Sinus spray
Sinus spray Sinus Sufferer Turns Nasal Spray Project Into Sales Leader NYT, By MATT VILLANO FOR wits ranging from primary-school science teachers to Madison Avenue advertising teams, the phrase “the nose knows” has long proved irresistible. It might also be used to describe the unusual path taken by Dr. Ketan Mehta, a pulmonary and critical-care physician […]
Dannii Minogue Thyroid
Dannii Minogue Thyroid – weight loss explained SMH, October 11, 2011 Dannii Minogue is receiving treatment for an under-active thyroid, which caused her to shed weight after giving birth. The singer-turned-reality TV show judge had her first child, son Ethan, last year, but shortly after leaving hospital she fell ill and suffered a bout of appendicitis. […]
Tired of Feeling the Burn? Low-Acid Diet May Help
Tired of Feeling the Burn? Low-Acid Diet May Help NYT, By TARA PARKER-POPE | November 7, 2011 This year, a small study found that restricting dietary acid could relieve reflux symptoms like coughing and hoarseness in patients who had not been helped by drug therapy, according to the journal Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology. In […]
Prenatal Testing of Thyroid Is Debated
Prenatal Testing of Thyroid Is Debated NYT, By INGFEI CHEN, Published: April 13, 2009 When women think about pregnancy, the thyroid gland is seldom the first thing that leaps to mind. Nestled in the neck, the gland makes hormones that govern metabolism, helping to regulate body weight, heart rate and a host of other factors. But if […]
Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid
For Some, Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid NYT, By HARRIET BROWN, November 21, 2011 In patients with depression, anxiety and other psychiatric problems, doctors often find abnormal blood levels of thyroid hormone. Treating the problem, they have found, can lead to improvements in mood, memory and cognition. Now researchers are exploring a somewhat controversial link between […]
Antibiotics best for middle-ear infections, study finds
Antibiotics for middle ear infections SMH, By Thomas Maugh THE consensus on whether to give antibiotics to young children with ear infections has been swinging from one extreme to the other as conflicting evidence has pushed doctors first towards administering drugs, then towards a hands-off approach. Two new trials reported on Wednesday in the New […]
Regimens: Antibiotic Use for Sinusitis Is Questioned
Antibiotics for Sinusitis NYT, By Nicholas Baralar Antibiotics are commonly used to treat sinusitis, but a new clinical trial has found that a placebo works just as well. Scientists randomized 166 adults, all of whom met the diagnostic criteria for sinusitis, to receive the antibiotic amoxicillin or a placebo three times a day for 10 […]
Why antibiotics can be health risk
Antibiotics for ear, nose, throat or chest infections SMH, By Amy Corderoy NEARLY 100 years after antibiotics were discovered, a study has found most Australians are confused about when they should take them and how they work. And this ignorance could be putting our health at risk, doctors say, with deadly superbugs on the increase […]
Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for Base of Tongue Neoplasms
Robotic surgery The Laryngoscope, Bert W. O’Malley, Jr., MD; Gregory S. Weinstein, MD; Wendy Snyder, BS; Neil G. Hockstein, MD Over the past 10 years, there have been increasing reports of the use of primary radiation or combined chemotherapy and radiation for tongue base neoplasms. The key factor driving this movement away from primary surgery […]
Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk
Sleep apnoea cancer risk New York Times, By Anahad O’Connor Two new studies have found that people with sleep apnea, a common disorder that causes snoring, fatigue and dangerous pauses in breathing at night, have a higher risk of cancer. The new research marks the first time that sleep apnea has been linked to cancer […]
