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Article: Evaluating Dysphagia: Maximize exam and swallow studies for diagnostic success

Stroke, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), head and neck cancer, Zenker’s diverticulum—each of these disparate conditions can cause dysphagia.

Article: Sore Spot: New hoarseness guidelines stir controversy

In September, the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNS/F) published the first national clinical practice guidelines on hoarseness.

Article: Unintended Consequences: Combat-related injuries lead to advances in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery

Ever since the first fully equipped otolaryngology team was sent to the Air Force Theater Hospital (AFTH) in Balad, Iraq in 2004, an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon has become a permanent member of any deployed multispecialty head and neck team, working alongside a neurosurgeon, ophthalmologist and oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Article: Literature Review: a roundup of the most important recent studies

The Impact of Thyroidectomy on Vocal Quality Characteristics; Avastin Treatment for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Epistaxis; Language Performance in Disabled Children with Cochlear Implants; Propranolol Effective, Well-Tolerated for Symptomatic IH; and Submandibular Gland Excision Successful for Surgical Management of Sialorrhea

Article: Quality Over Quantity: Accountable care organizations link physician payments to hospital outcomes

Beyond the handful of long-established and well-integrated sites being labeled as de facto accountable care organizations (ACOs), advocates are seizing the moment and pushing for a bold vision of what role ACOs will play in the movement to reform the health care payment system across the country.

Article: The Otolaryngology Gender Gap: How do we make it disappear?

It’s a fact: An increasing number of American women are entering medicine. In the U.S. today, half of matriculating medical students, and 28 percent of all practicing physicians, are women.

Article: Docs Gone Bad: Your top doc just threw a tantrum. Now what?

In the more than ten years that Paul Levine, MD, FACS, has served as chair of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he has heard his share of complaints about high-powered surgeons who are difficult to work with.