NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuter Health) – Results of a meta-analysis indicate that outcomes related to recovery are equivalent or superior with intracapsular tonsillectomy as compared with total tonsillectomy in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even a few hours a night of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy leads to meaningful improvements in attention, sleepiness and quality of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Profoundly deaf children given bilateral cochlear devices have significantly better spoken language abilities than those given a single implant, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tonsillectomy is an effective treatment for children with dysphagia related to enlarged tonsils, according to results of a prospective cohort study. Removing the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Researchers who systematically reviewed 35 protocols to screen for swallowing difficulties after acute stroke found only four that met basic requirements for reliability,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptoms considered typical of chronic rhinosinusitis are often nonspecific and do not warrant antibiotic treatment, according to findings reported in Clinical Infectious Disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acupuncture given simultaneously with radiotherapy to the head and neck reduces the development and severity of xerostomia (dry mouth) and improves quality of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thoracoscopic unilateral extended thymectomy (TUET) is “the best treatment option” for patients undergoing surgery for nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, clinicians from Romania conclude in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Triamcinolone acetonide injected through the cricothyroid membrane prompts significant improvement in patients with vocal nodules. Almost half of the nodules disappeared within weeks,…