Clinical Trial for Sudden Deafness Now Recruiting

President Bush Challenges Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Repeat Hearing Tests for Newborns Recommended

Academy Member Discusses Surgery for Pediatric Sleep Apnea

Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning

Physician Office Compliance to Americans with Disabilities Act

Religious Journey for Academy Member Ends

Otolaryngologist and Spouse Throw Culinary Gauntlet

Research and Markets: Future Developments for Head and Neck Cancer Require Integration of Targeted Therapy into Current Radiation and Chemotherapy Regimes, Business Wire,February 17, 2005
Research and Markets has announced the addition of a new report, "Head and Neck Cancer - Innovations to Change the Face of Treatment" to their offering.
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(Note: New advances in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer will be presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the North America Skull Base Society, being held April 7-10, 2005 in Toronto, Canada, and the American Head & Neck Society Meeting being held at the Combined Otolaryngology Society Meetings (COSM), May 15-16, 2005 in Boca Raton, FL)

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Sudden Deafness Study Under Way, TheBostonChannel.com, February 7, 2005
A Boston television station reports on the disorder to be addressed by the NIH-NIDCD sponsored Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Multicenter Treatment Trial, now open for subject enrollment. This $5.8mil study, chaired by Steven D. Rauch, MD, of Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, is a collaborative effort of investigators at eight medical centers (Harvard, Univ. of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Cleveland Clinic, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Iowa, and UC San Diego) plus a data management center (Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL).
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(View the clinical trials website at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00097448?order=14>)

Dr Huang comment:

突發性耳聾是耳鼻喉科的急症之一，越早治療效果越好。發生的原因有多種，包括血管阻塞、病毒感染等等。治療主要以口服或是注射類固醇為主。

Bush's Next Target: Malpractice Lawyers, The New York Times, February 27, 2005
This month, the Bush administration won the first round in its fight to curb litigation, as Congress passed legislation to sharply restrict class-action lawsuits against companies. Next up is medical malpractice. In his re-election campaign, Mr. Bush repeatedly decried "junk lawsuits" as the bane of the nation's doctors. The issue was deftly framed, and the subtext was clear: greedy lawyers were attacking the Marcus Welbys of America, good doctors doing their best.
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Repeat Tests Help Spot Newborn Hearing Loss, The Palm Beach Post, February 24, 2005
Repeat testing of newborns within 10 days of delivery may be the best way to catch hard-to-spot hearing difficulties and to rule out false diagnoses, according to a new study appearing in the Journal of Pediatrics. Presently, many states require only one such test, conducted four hours after birth. "It's vital to re-screen newborns shortly after birth, then again after 24 hours," Dr. Angela Shoup, assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, and leader of UT Southwestern's communicative and vestibular disorders program
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Save Your Voice ... It's the High Season for Laryngitis; Here's How to Avoid It, The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID), February 28, 2005
Winter is the high season for laryngitis, a kitchen-sink term for any inflammation of the larynx. There are other causes of hoarseness besides laryngitis -- everything from esophageal cancer to hypothyroidism -- but it's the most common source this time of year. That's because laryngitis tends to follow other upper respiratory infections, which thrive in dry, warm enclosed spaces.
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(Note: Participate in World Voice Day, April 16. Learn more at http://www.entnet.org/news/voiceday.cfm)

Children Can Benefit from Surgery for Sleep Apnea, Medical Procedure News, March 1, 2005
There is a growing awareness that sleep apnea in children may cause a wide range of problems including developmental delay, failure to thrive, cardio-respiratory complications and behavioral disorders, says Erica Bennett, MD, an AAO-HNS member at the University of Mexico School of Medicine. And, while very young children need to be monitored in the hospital closely for complications, Bennett said a growing number of parents see the benefits of surgery for children - some even younger than three years of age - if means their children have the possible opportunity to forego years of medication.
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Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning, The New York Times, March 2, 2005
In a move to improve efficiency and control costs, health plans and medical groups around the country are now beginning to pay doctors to reply by e-mail, just as they pay for office visits. While some computer-literate doctors have been using e-mail to communicate informally with patients for years, most have never been paid for that service.
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