Drink Up before You Go Caroling This Season—As Long as It’s Not Alcohol
(Published: 12-05-2007) If you’re planning to hit the streets and sing Christmas carols around the neighborhood during the
holiday season make sure to drink plenty—of water, that is.
Jefferson Specialists Studying Innovative Surgery for Effectively Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea
(Published: 08-27-2007) Sleep disorder and ear, nose and throat specialists at Thomas Jefferson University are examining an
innovative procedure to treat obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
Jefferson Head and Neck Surgeons Using Balloon Catheter Device in Minimally Invasive Procedure for Treatment of Sinusitis
(Published: 04-17-2007) Head and neck surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are using a minimally-invasive means
of treating chronic sinusitis and clearing blocked sinus passageways.
Jefferson Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Offer Newly FDA-Approved Radiesse
(Published: 01-15-2007) The FDA recently approved Radiesse for the long-lasting correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles
and folds. The product has been used by the Head and Neck Surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital since 2002 to help
patients with vocal fold paralysis. By augmenting the vocal fold, speech and voice deficits improve.
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Out Caroling? Be in Harmony With Your Body, Too
Holiday singers need lots of water to stay on key, expert says
(Published: 12-22-2006, Healthday.com) If you're caroling in your neighborhood during the holidays, a voice specialist has
some tips to help you hit all the right notes.
Drink plenty of water, says Dr. Joseph R. Spiegel, associate professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital in Philadelphia. At this time of year, the air is cold and dry and can affect your voice.
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How Candidates Can Maximize Their Voices
(Published: 11-5-2006, KYW Newsradio 1060AM) With political candidates in the home stretch, you can be sure they've still
got lots to say leading up to Election Day. But what if they can't say it?
It's not hard to imagine this scene: Bob Casey and Rick Santorum in a room together -- going at each other's throats. But
could it be just that their voices need a little R & R?
"Candidates are going probably 16, 18 hours a day, and every place they go it's some type of speaking engagement, where it's
at least a small group or a large crowd. It's a lot more speaking than I'm sure they do on any day-to-day basis," said Dr.
Joseph Spiegel, an otolaryngologist with Thomas Jefferson University.
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The nose knows
(Published: 09-11-2006, Philadelphia Inquirer) For the millions of Americans who take drugs to treat mental illness, about
the only way psychiatrists can tell whether the medications are working is through observation and asking patients how they
feel. And even when doctors do find the right drugs, they can't explain exactly why the meds are effective. It's the glaring
void at the heart of mental health treatment. No one, from the scientists developing drugs to those who prescribe them, is
able to examine the diseased tissue: the cells of the human brain. Enter Nancy Rawson, a cell biologist at Monell Chemical
Senses Center in Philadelphia. She does it through the nose.
Working with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University, Rawson takes advantage of a scientific
curiosity: The sensory cells in the nose, unlike those elsewhere in the body, are very similar to neurons in the brain, Rawson
says. And they can be easily plucked out for study, a few hundred at a time, because they grow back. Removing a clump of neurons
from the nose is a delicate business, but in the hands of Edmund Pribitkin, it's swift and painless.
The otolaryngology professor at Jefferson has done hundreds of the biopsies.
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Doctors Perform Brain Surgery Through Nose
(Published: 05-23-2006, NBC10) Physicians at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital performed brain surgery Tuesday using some
of the newest technology around.
The doctors removed a tumor from a patient without making an external incision in his head or face. They removed a pituitary
tumor through the patient's nose.
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Live on the Web Tomorrow -- Jefferson Surgeons Perform Leading Edge Minimally Invasive Surgery to Remove Pituitary Tumor
(Published: 05-22-2006) Jefferson will host a webcast featuring the newest approach for the removal of pituitary tumors –
minimally invasive endoscopic pituitary surgery. Viewers will also be able to ask questions online of the surgical team during
the surgery.
Live on the Web--Jefferson Surgeons Perform Leading Edge Minimally Invasive Surgery to Remove Pituitary Tumor(Published: 04-05-2006) Breakthrough procedure allows doctors to remove brain tumors through nose and nasal sinuses Jefferson
will host a webcast featuring the newest approach for the removal of pituitary tumors – minimally invasive endoscopic pituitary
surgery – on Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at 4:30 pm. Viewers will also be able to ask questions online of the surgical team during
the surgery.
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The Nose Knows This New Surgery Technique(Published: 03-09-2006, KYW Newsradio) A local hospital is offering minimally-invasive surgery for removing brain tumors.
The procedure is similar to that of ancient Egyptian practices.
The breakthrough procedure at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital allows doctors to remove brain tumors through the nose
and nasal sinuses.
"In the past we used to use microscopes and big incisions to get into the sinuses and take out the tumor with a microscope.
Now we go straight into the sinus without making a lot of incisions and using the telescope we can take out the tumor,” says
Jefferson otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon Dr. Marc Rosen. He says the method to approach the brain through the nose
has been around for a long time.
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iPods and How They Cause Ear Damage(Published: 03-08-2006, KYW Newsradio)
iPods and other personal sound devices present a danger to hearing, but an expert says it's an easy danger to avoid.
We recognize the sound of a jackhammer as potentially harmful. But maybe not music. Nonetheless, Dr. Thomas Willcox, director
of the Jefferson Hospital Hearing Center, says, in terms of damage, it's only the volume that counts so just turn it down!
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Jefferson Offers Minimally Invasive Surgery for Removing Brain and Skull Base Tumors
(Published: 03-03-2006) A state of the art program has opened at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital offering a new alternative
for people with brain and skull base tumors. The Jefferson Center for Minimally Invasive Cranial Base Surgery and Endoscopic
Neurosurgery is a comprehensive center in the Philadelphia area where surgeons are able to remove skull-based tumors through
nose and nasal sinuses instead of the traditional, more invasive surgery which required opening up the brain and skull.
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Can You Hear me Now?
(Published: 02-22-2006, Jewish Exponent) We live in a noisy world and, at times, a very noisy Philadelphia metropolitan area,
where so-called "noise pollution" surrounds, assaults and bombards our senses day and night.
While most of these and other sources of noise are fleeting, they can be stressful, and even feed a noise anxiety in some
people, who'd rather flee the scene than fight the urge not to seek shelter from the endless barrage.
"Prolonged loud noise can be injurious to the cochlea or inner ear, as sound-pressure waves damage hair cells," said Thomas
Willcox, M.D., otolaryngologist, director of the Hearing Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and associate professor
of otolaryngology head-and-neck surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "We are
less sensitive to loud noises today because culturally, society has accepted them to some degree, but from a health standpoint,
there is no such thing as good noise."
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Ranked Best Hospital in Philadelphia for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Medicine by
U.S.News & World Report