Xylitol is a 5-carbon sugar alcohol that has been shown to prevent caries when incorporated into chewing gum and reduce the incidence of acute otitis media when incorporated…
Each month we present you with the latest featured study from the research teams at JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association. Check out the video for intriguing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, intratympanic injection of corticosteroids is no better or worse than oral corticosteroid therapy, but is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Steroid nasal spray does not have a beneficial effect on the tympanometric signs and symptoms of eustachian tube dysfunction in school-aged children and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Based on the results of a double-blind comparative trial, an extract of a plant commonly known as butterbur is an effective treatment for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children undergoing tonsillectomy, preoperative injection of lidocaine plus bupivacaine, with or without clonidine, does not reduce the use of analgesics in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis accompanied by nasal polyps, treatment first with oral steroids followed by topical steroids is more effective than just…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with nasal polyposis, polypectomy is a “valuable alternative” to radical ethmoidectomy, a French team reports in the February issue of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the workup of patients with early esophageal neoplasia, endoscopic ultrasound is unreliable for identifying submucosal infiltration and lymph node involvement — the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with papillary thyroid cancer who undergo lobectomy do as well as those who undergo total thyroidectomy, while external beam radiation is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The problem of drooling in children with neurological disorders can be relieved in about half of cases by injections of botulinum toxin into…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative dexamethasone does not boost the risk of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, according to a large retrospective study reported in the August Archives of Otolaryngology…
