Nasal cartilage is notoriously hard to replace once it has been lost or damaged. Although existing treatments borrow tissue from other parts of the body, a new technique gained some renown recently when scientists announced that laboratory-grown cartilage had been successfully implanted in several patients. Each of them had lost significant cartilage due to skin … Continue reading Promising Results for Lab-Grown Cartilage
View More >>Most of the stories that report on balloon sinuplasty focus on its effectiveness and convenience. This is a fast and minimally invasive sinus surgery procedure which can be completed in your doctor’s office in about an hour, and which can remedy longstanding issues of sinus pain and infection. One recent news story also highlighted something … Continue reading Balloon Sinuplasty Hailed for Low Price and High Convenience
View More >>And so it has come to pass. In a finding that dominated headlines all last week, authorities are reporting that the highly dangerous Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS), first discovered in Saudi Arabia, has now made landfall of a sort, appearing in a patient in Indiana. The bad news is that MERS has stolen many … Continue reading MERS Makes Its North American Debut
View More >>Allergies, sinusitis, and disease can all wreak havoc on your ability to breathe. Absent this ability, many others can suffer – think sleep, exercise, and focus. My Los Angeles sinus surgery offices offer a number of remedies to help patients breathe easier, including septoplasty, nasal polyp removal, and turbinate reduction. But one of the most … Continue reading Balloon Sinuplasty is Help for the Helpless
View More >>It is a cliché of modern times that smartphones have become “everything machines” – they manage our schedules, sort our photos, supply our distractions, even deliver our relationships. Now some enterprising coders have come up with yet another trick: using a smartphone to contain snoring. It is more than an idle amusement. Snoring, even in … Continue reading Snoring Too Much? There’s an App for That
View More >>I am deeply honored to sit on the board of an organization that does a tremendous amount of hard, good work, helping people develop the tools they need to deal with overwhelming grief. That organization is LA’s own Our House, a celebrated retreat where kids and adults can go and find support as they fight … Continue reading Our House To Be Featured on HBO
View More >>Let us dispense with the obvious first: I am not an avid follower of millennial pop stars. But I did hear a lot this week about the putative queen of this group, Miley Cyrus, whose sinus infection has apparently blossomed into a full-blown allergic reaction due to the prescription antibiotics she received. It is a … Continue reading The Miley Cyrus Sinus Fracas
View More >>I am fortunate to be interviewed from time to time for magazine features and medical trades. Often these interviews are broad-ranging, covering the many procedures of sinus surgery in general terms. Recently, however, I gave an interview on the specific benefits of image-guided surgical techniques. I discussed a number of essential benefits, including the important … Continue reading Why Image-Guided Sinus Surgery Can Save Your Life
View More >>Longtime readers will know that I like to cover the wild world of snoring sleep aids from time to time. My interest in these devices is more than idle; snoring, and its cousin obstructive sleep apnea, are terribly dangerous conditions that often go unchecked and untreated for decades at a time. One of the principal … Continue reading More Sleeping Aids for Snoring
View More >>Nasal polyps are often benign, and can be easily removed with nasal polyp removal surgery. But just because these gelatinous sacs can be addressed quickly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of study. On the contrary, new data suggests that chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps may be linked to a more serious form of asthma in … Continue reading Nasal Polyps Linked to More Severe Disease in Women
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