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…
Reza Jarrahy, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCLA, discusses cleft lip and palate, which has an incidence of around one in 600 births.Surgical interventions…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new feeding tube that’s inserted while attached to an ultra-thin gastroscope will avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of blind tube placement, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly all patients have complications from chemoradiation for head and neck cancer, a study in the Archives of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than a third of patients undergoing routine outpatient endoscopic procedures are at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to findings…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with bacterial meningitis, age and presenting neurologic status are the most important predictors of hearing loss, and neither dexamethasone nor glycerol…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses new hearing aids, which use digital signaling to differentiate…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses hearing aids, which are amplifiers, rather than a cure…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses loud noise and preventable hearing loss. Loud noise is…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses newborn hearing screening, which is now mandatory in all…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses newborn hearing screening, and the consequences of delayed diagnosis…
