An important success story has been quietly taking place at the National Institutes of Health over the last decade, which bodes well for patient care, for science, and for the specialty.

An important success story has been quietly taking place at the National Institutes of Health over the last decade, which bodes well for patient care, for science, and for the specialty.
To date, various studies have demonstrated an increase in the incidence of orbital and skull base erosion in African Americans and males diagnosed with allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS), but other factors have yet to be delineated.
Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is effective in controlling allergic symptoms in a preliminary patient cohort, according to a study presented April 27 at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting.
Although the most commonly seen cases of laryngomalacia (LM) are in very young children, clinicians should consider late-onset LM as a potential cause of feeding difficulties in toddlers, sleep apnea in children, and teenage exercise intolerance, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic.
Cochlear implantation has become a safe procedure-and, as result of refinements in devices and surgical techniques, complications are atypical.
Noise-induced hearing loss is a key challenge in otolaryngology today. Interestingly, an older class of antiepileptic drugs, T-type calcium blockers, may hold promise as preventive agents.
Approximately 80% of children three years of age and younger are affected by otitis media, with treatment costs estimated at more than $5 billion per year.