New Medical Device to Cure Excessive Sweating

Everybody sweats, but some sweat more than others to the point where even constant anti-perspirant usage is insufficient. Beyond botox whic...

American Girl Doll Gets Hearing Aids

The American Girl doll company now offers hearing aids for their 18 inch doll models only through their Doll Hospital . Thanks to Tampa Bay ...

New Oral Appliance for OSA (Only Needs Heat to Fit)

A new sleep apnea oral appliance can be fitted and used at home without going to a dentist called  ApneaRx ! Oral appliances to treat obst...

R&B Singer Maxwell with Vocal Cord Hemorrhage

At least that's what the  Washington Post  reported on June 22, 2012. This has resulted in cancellation of his summer tour. Per media re...

Oral Mass Excised From Fetus Still in the Womb!

In a world's first, surgeons removed a 4 cm oral mass (teratoma) in a 4 month old fetus while still in the womb. This was performed at...

Scientists Publish Research on Breakthrough Treatment for Tonsil Stones

Title sounds very exciting... even more so when I realized it was talking about the research paper that I co-authored with fellow ENT colle...

New Minimally Invasive Technique to Treat Tonsil Stones Developed by Dr. Chang

Dr. Chang developed an innovative minimally invasive technique to treat tonsil stones using coblation technology. His findings have been pu...

Smartphone Otoscope for the Masses

The geniuses at UC Berkley ( Cellscope ) have developed an otoscope that can attach to a smartphone allowing visualization of the eardrum on...

Saliva Test for Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR)

Various groups have been developing a fast, cheap, non-invasive saliva swab test to determine whether laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is pre...

12 Years Old Girl Dies After Tonsillectomy

Tampa Bay Times reported on June 10, 2012 a 12 years old girl died after a tonsillectomy performed on Aug 13, 2010 for chronic tonsillitis...

The Rationing of High Cost Healthcare

I would like to start this blog article with an extreme hypothetical situation... Imagine a pharmaceutical company comes out with a pill......

100% Patient Satisfaction Scores

What if I told you this 100% patient satisfaction score was due to a survey of only two people... that I personally picked? Welcome to the b...

ENT as Comic Book Hero (or Villain)

I had no idea that ENTs with our head mirrors are relatively common in the comic book world alternately portrayed as heroes or villains. (Mo...

Head CT Scans Increase Risk of Cancer in Kids

By how much? Brain tumor/cancer risk was 3X greater than the general population in children who received two to three CT scans of the head. ...

daVinci Surgical Robot Makes Paper Airplane... Yawn!

A blog reader of mine informed me about this YouTube video of a surgeon, Dr. James Porter, making a paper airplane using a daVinci surgical...

Sheryl Crow With Benign Brain Tumor

It was announced yesterday that Sheryl Crow has a benign brain tumor known as a meningioma . The Grammy award winning singer did not disclos...

Costs of Surgery... How Is This Calculated?

So I have blogged about this topic a few times in the past, but there still seems to be confusion regarding the costs of surgery. As mention...

Vice-President Biden's Daughter Marries an ENT Doctor

On June 2, 2012, Vice-President's daughter Ashley married Dr. Howard Krein in Delaware. Though this news is not really all that interes...

Surgery Center Posts Prices of Procedures

Given the uproar over the lack of transparency of surgery prices , it was only a matter of time before an operating facility  in the United ...