Latest Otolaryngology Stories
Frown lines and heavy brows are weighing down most women. And if the mirror is reflecting a tired, unhappy or angry face, consider a forehead lift, injection or dermal filler to refresh and rejuvenate. Park City, UT (PRWEB) October 11, 2012 Is a facial expression attracting people or turning them off? Is it a mirror for personality or creating a false impression? And how much is aging to blame for any negative reaction that is being generated? While a woman might be a happy, contented and...
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of the 30(th) anniversary of the first commercially available multichannel cochlear implant, Cochlear Americas announced today the launch of a national awareness initiative and education tour designed to inform the public about advanced treatments for hearing loss, a growing problem affecting one in 10 Americans. Over the last 30 years, cochlear implants have redefined what it means to be deaf by giving people access to...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, announced today that the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Mass. Eye and Ear) selected the company's Clinical Performance Intelligence and Revenue Cycle Intelligence solutions to drive quality and financial improvements. Mass. Eye and Ear chose these solutions to gain insight into physician utilization and quality metrics as well as to enhance...
Additional space accommodates growth in implantable, magnetic hearing device market Boulder, CO (PRWEB) October 02, 2012 Sophono, Inc., has moved Boulder headquarters and manufacturing to larger facilities in Boulder. The medical device manufacturer specializing in implantable, bone conduction hearing devices, is now occupying 10,000 square feet at 5744 Central Avenue in Boulder. The move, from 3022 Sterling Circle in Boulder, nearly triples its space. Sophono maintains all manufacturing,...
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Developing tinnitus can be more than bothersome. Individuals' reactions to the tinnitus perception can include mild annoyance, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other serious medical issues. Tinnitus is often described as buzzing, ringing, hissing, humming, roaring, or whistling that someone hears in the absence of any external sound. More than 50 million people in the United States alone suffer from the condition, according to the...
Dr. Randolph C. Robinson has been invited to speak at the Colorado Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on January 27, 2012 during the Metropolitan Denver Dental Society Meeting. Dr. Robinson will present on his work with Face the Challenge, Inc. a medical relief organization, which he and his wife Ginger founded in 1993. (PRWEB) September 30, 2012 Face the Challenge’s mission is to provide free facial surgeries to children and adults in developing countries and the United States....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online It might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but it's actually a real-life medical miracle: doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital managed to grow a replacement ear for a cancer patient on her own arm. The patient, Sherrie Walters, developed basal cell carcinoma in 2008 and had to have a portion of her left ear, skull, and ear canal removed, Gizmodo writer Kyle Wagner explained in an article Thursday. Now, four years...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jo Black, Executive Director of the Independent Living Resource Center, Inc., pauses when she thinks about meeting the future demand for deaf and hard of hearing services. The Office of Deaf Access estimates 3 million deaf and hard of hearing people reside in California. With the wave of Americans turning 65 nearly doubling to 72.1 million by 2030, coupled with the fact that one in five teenagers already suffers from hearing loss,...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from the Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and The Hearing, Speech, and the Language Center at Sheba Medical Center recently noted that bilateral cochlear implants could possibly improve binaural sound processing in the brain. Cochlear implants, sometimes known as bionic ears, have been used since the end of the 1980 as electronic devices in both ear lobes. They were created to help...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ENTrigue Surgical, Inc. ("ENTrigue" or the "Company"), a privately held company that develops, manufactures and distributes medical devices used for Ear, Nose and Throat surgical procedures, announced today the limited commercial release in the United States of its Ventera®-R Sinus Dilation System for revision surgery of the frontal, maxillary and sphenoid sinuses. The Ventera-R Sinus Dilation System utilizes a single-use balloon...
Latest Otolaryngology Reference Libraries
Tracheal intubation (commonly known as intubation) is the placement of a flexible plastic tube into the trachea in order to maintain an open airway or to serve as a conduit through which to administer oxygen or other drugs. It is commonly performed in emergency situations and critically ill or injured patients, but intubation is also used in patients who will be undergoing a lengthy surgery that requires them to be under anesthesia for a significant number of hours. In order to intubate,...
In 1861 Adam Politzer of Vienna spent much time studying the air movement in the Eustachian tubes and the ear canal. He would measure the air movement by attaching a manometer, a very large gauge, to the ear canal and the pharynx. He developed an apparatus known as the Politzer bag in 1863 which is a less invasive way to clear the Eustachian tubes. Procedure Politzerization, also known as the Politzer maneuver, is a medical procedure which inserts air in the middle ear while the patient...
