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Voice is sound production. Speech is what ultimately comes out the mouth after the sound is modified by the tight coordination among the throat muscles, palate, tongue, lips, teeth, etc. An example of a voice problem is hoarseness...
The New York Times in July 6, 2009 published an interesting article regarding the potentially fatal risk of taking tylenol and ibuprofen...
ABC News on November 11, 2009 aired a story about a 12 year old girl with an unfortunate condition called "machine gun sneezing"...
In the Nov 11, 2009 New York Times Science section, a story has been published titled "Speech Gene Shows Its Bossy Nature" where a single gene known as FOXP2 has been found to be responsible for speech (or lack thereof)...
The brainy folks at Google has been at it again... Not only did they produce a map showing the flu trends in the US... but now they have produced a Flu Shot finder based on zip code for both seasonal as well as H1N1 vaccines. The locations are displayed on their Google Maps page.Check it out here...
I recently received a phone call regarding a newborn who the pediatrician suspected had bilateral choanal atresia. This is a situation in which the infant is not able to breath through the nose...
A patient of mine brought the funnies from the Oct 28, 2009 Washington Post of a cartoon by John McPherson poking fun at ENT.
Due to patient demand, we have established a voice-mail phone number that our patients who have difficulty communicating over the phone due to hearing loss can call and leave a precise message on a voice mail...
On Nov 3, 2009, the Washington Post Medical Mystery section published a story titled "Annoying bug turned out to be much more" where a 19 year old female presented with a sore throat which rapidly progressed to a blood clot in her jugular vein, pneumonia, and massive swelling in her neck.What she...
USA Today on November 2, 2009 published a story entitled "Your Health: Hearing aid guide cuts through the noise" in which best practices for buying a hearing aid is discussed. For the story, Dr...
Continuing the spirit of Halloween with semi-relevant ENT random news...Someone forwarded me this picture of a TEN foot great white shark which was bitten by an even bigger great white shark...
In celebration for Halloween today, I have found a few crazy pumpkin carvings courtesy of Extreme Pumpkins. Here is the one that I carved, complete with snotty tissues:If you have another relevant one, please comment and include a link to a picture. Enjoy!
On Oct 23, 2009, Dr. Oz (his show) with the assistance of Dr. Jonathan Aviv, demonstrated a procedure called Nasal Endoscopy which is the main method of evaluating a patient with hoarseness...
Believe it or not, this has been the topic of research in the past and even has a medical diagnosis called "sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"...
Desiree Jennings, a former Redskins cheerleader, received a seasonal flu shot on Aug 23, 2009 and has suffered from a possible dystonia reaction from the flu vaccination resulting in difficulties in eating, talking, and walking.Here is a link to a video where Dr...
