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Feel Like You’re Getting Sick? Have a Drink
It’s not every day that a team of researchers set up a study to let rhesus macaques drink as much as they’d like, but that is precisely what a group in Oregon just did. They were trying to determine what effect, if any, alcohol consumption has on immune resistance. After dividing the monkeys into a … Continue reading Feel Like You’re Getting Sick? Have a Drink
View More >>Ingenius Bacterium Leads to Chronic Ear Infections
It has been widely reported that antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Now scientists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have discovered an important clue about how one common bacterium seems able to elude the body’s own immune response. Bacteria need a nutrient known as heme-iron to survive. Our bodies deprive the bacteria of this particular compound … Continue reading Ingenius Bacterium Leads to Chronic Ear Infections
View More >>A Silver Bullet for Antibiotic Resistance
Bacterial resistance is poised to become one of the great health crises of the 21st century, which is why I tend to give the issue so many column inches in this space. Resistance is an especially pressing problem for the ENT community because we are disproportionately guilty of overprescribing antibiotics for symptoms that don’t require … Continue reading A Silver Bullet for Antibiotic Resistance
View More >>What Do Sleep Apnea and Preeclampsia Have in Common?
The world of biochemical markers is a woolly one, fraught with false positives and meaningless correlations. To say that one thing is “associated” with another is quite different from proving cause and effect. But correlations can teach us things nonetheless, pointing the way toward common etiologies and intertwined physical processes. All of which is prelude … Continue reading What Do Sleep Apnea and Preeclampsia Have in Common?
View More >>Sneezing Study Unlocks a New Avenue for Sinusitis Treatment
Why do we sneeze? Various explanations have found their way into public consciousness over the years, but the most popular remains the most plausible: we sneeze to clear our noses. Something gets in there, be it a pollutant or a particulate, and the sneeze is our body’s resounding retort. But now researchers have discovered a … Continue reading Sneezing Study Unlocks a New Avenue for Sinusitis Treatment
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