Steroid nasal spray more effective against hay fever
...ion of allergy symptoms -- such as sneezing, runny nose and congestion -- than the pill group. On a scale of zero (no symptoms) to 12 (severe symptoms), the fluticasone group had a median score of 4.5, while the loratadine/montelukast group had a score of 6. On a quality-of-life survey, which looked at t...Study shows synthetic pheromone in womens perfume increases intimate contact with men
... or the vomeronasal organ, which is located in the nose and conveys messages to the higher cortical regions of the brain, potentially could mediate pheromone signals. However, SFSU researchers hypothesize that the olfactory epithelium is the most likely site.Lisa Pitino, a graduate student in psychology, ...Helium imaging detects emphysema changes in smallest airways of lung
...ely large tube that carries air from the mouth and nose into the chest and shows up as violet when imaged. In small airways within healthy lungs, the bronchioles and alveoli, the helium atoms have little room to move. These areas show up in the image as red or deep orange. Emphysema progressively destr...Feeding tubes may not help in severe dementia, yet use varies widely
...deliver liquid nourishment temporarily through the nose or permanently directly into the stomach. They may be used in persons who have difficulty swallowing, common in cases of severe dementia. This difficulty in swallowing can result in weight loss and frequent bouts of aspiration pneumonia. All are harb...New cold treatment developed at the University of Virginia
...ry pathways associated with cold symptoms: Stuffy nose results from dilation of blood vessels in certain tissues in the nose called turbinates. When the blood vessels dilate, turbinates swell and block air passages, making br......, UC Davis Medical Center was ranked 26th for ear, nose and throat; 29th for hormonal disorders; 32nd for orthopaedics; 40th for neurology and neurosurgery; 45th for heart and heart surgery; and 49th for urology. "These hospitals excel partly because their doctors perform large numbers of tricky and risk......elies on his wits when performing a breast lift or nose job. "The basic elements of plastic surgery are rather primitive," said Krantz. "The primary conceptual tools of the surgeon are experience and intuitive aesthetics. If you read the technical papers of the very best plastic surgeons it's like readi...Sick or sleepy -- No option in outer space
...n option when a crewmember feels nauseous. An ear, nose and throat specialist, Dornhoffer is researching four drugs lorazepam, meclizine, promethazine and scopolamine to determine what drug is most effective at reducing space motion sickness without impacting cognitive and physical ability. His team is...Laser procedure effective in correcting nasal blockages associated with deviated septum
...oblems uses a scalpel to cut away flaps inside the nose and reshape the cartilage manually. Stitches are needed to close the surgical wounds. The procedure is costly and the patient may need time off from work to recover. The new procedure uses a laser to heat the malformations until they are soft enou...Clot-buster keeps heart devices humming
...t of thrombolytic therapy. Four patients did have nose bleeds for three days. All patients were discharged from intensive care immediately after discontinuing rt-PA. Six patients went on to successful heart transplantation and two died on LVAD support because of multiorgan failure. "Thrombolytic therap...Happy people may have more immunities to common cold
...eir assessment, each volunteer got a squirt in the nose of a rhinovirus -- the germ that causes colds. The researchers kept the subjects under observation for five days to see whether or not they became infected and how they manifested symptoms. "We found that experiencing positive emotions was associated...UCLA study reveals surgeon shortage
...laryngology, which involves procedures of the ear, nose and/or throat. Many of the patients needing these services are under age 15, which is a population group that will have little growth in coming years. Etzioni added that with improving technology -- including minimally invasive surgery -- procedures ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 2, 2003
...ten indicated anthrax, while sore throat and runny nose more often indicated viral infection. After a large-scale bioterrorist attack, mass screening based on the criteria identified in this study could aid in rapidly identifying patients who might have inhalational anthrax in a situation in which timely...Passing stop sign cures gene disease
...one has actually shown in that little patch of the nose that they can correct the abnormality," says Peter Durie of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. A larger trial where patients are inhaling the drug is already under way. Gentamicin may work for other genetic diseases too.Last year, a ...Could you suffer from psychosis? The nose knows
Your nose could provide the first reliable diagnostic tool for predicting a person's likelihood of developing psychosis, new research has found. An Australian team from the University of Melbourne examined a group of people deemed to be at ultra high risk of d...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (second issue)
... common inflammation of the mucous membrane in the nose called rhinitis. German researchers studied data from 896 subjects who had participated in the European Respiratory Health Survey and another study. After adjusting for age, body mass index, and smoking, they found that neither average systolic nor...New treatment appears effective for rosacea
...ndition characterized by red, flaky patches on the nose and cheeks and sometimes accompanied by lesions that appear similar to small pimples. According to the article, rosacea usually fist appears in people between the ages of 30 and 60 years. Rosacea seems to respond well to topical antimicrobial treat...... Center and Supersite. "They aren't trapped by the nose and trachea, but travel all the way down to the tiniest branches of the lungs and enter the bloodstream through the alveoli, which are very thin-walled sacs of spongy tissue at the ends of the bronchioles," said Sioutas, an associate professor of civ...Air pollution may significantly worsen respiratory allergies in individuals with genetic risk
...rchers twice gave each participant two treatments: nose spray containing either a dose of ragweed allergen and diesel exhaust particles or spray containing ragweed allergen and a placebo. The amount of diesel particles given was about what someone would experience during 40 hours spent in Southern Califor......ost often caused by a postnasal drip syndrome from nose and sinus diseases, asthma, or gastroesophageal reflux disease," said Ms. French. "If a precise cause for a patient's cough can be found, specific therapies can be used to treat the source, which will greatly reduce the incidence of cough and its ef...