The remarkable new tools of the genomic generation have been used by researchers at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, to zero in on genes that cause presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss.
Although expenses related to medical malpractice are often seen as a cost of doing business, the experience of litigation is a personal, as well as a professional assault. A malpractice suit attacks a physician’s integrity and confidence.
I would like to comment on your article Watchful Waiting May Be the Best Strategy, by Sheri Polley, in the November 2006 issue of ENToday.
The prevalence of biofilms was discussed in several presentations at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings here.
How can head and neck surgeons best meet the changing needs of patients and trainees in the 21st century?
Perioperative steroids have a clinically significant impact on the technical aspects of surgery and improve objective surgical outcomes in the short and medium term, according to research and a new scoring system presented April 26 by Triological Society Mosher Award recipient Erin D. Wright, MD, FRCSC, at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings.
Since President Richard M. Nixon declared a war on cancer more than 30 years ago, the battle still rages on several fronts.
With the federal government shouldering 45% of health care costs through five huge entitlements (see ENToday, April 2007) and a large federal deficit, the chance of politicians enacting a new federal entitlement for universal health insurance coverage is as likely as their conducting a smear-free political campaign.
Endoscopic mastoid surgery is difficult to learn, performed in a tight space, and will probably never replace conventional open procedures.