Pediatric recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) can be devastating for patients and their families.

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) remains a devastating disease for pediatric patients.
After a hiatus associated with a checkered past, gene therapy is again showing promise in several fields of medicine, and otolaryngology is no exception.
Despite much belief to the contrary, tobacco control has been a major public health success over the last four decades.
New guidelines published by the American Thyroid Association hope to offer stronger evidence on which to base diagnosis and treatment of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer.
A consensus panel of physicians who treat patients reporting sinus and facial pain strongly recommend the use of all diagnostic tools available to determine the root cause of the headache-whether it is neurological or physiological, migraine or sinus.
Doctors who deal with head and neck surgery often are the ones to first diagnose and potentially treat a variety of facial lesions-and they are more and more often finding themselves dealing with lentigo maligna.
One presenter offers guidance on what otolaryngologists can do to offer comfort to their dying head and neck cancer patients