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Screaming Hoops Fans at Risk for Vocal Problems
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the ACC tourney gearing up and March Madness getting in full swing, basketball fans are topping decibel charts with their verbal support for their favorite college team.
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Microcoils help locate small lung nodules
Feb 02, 2009 |
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A new technique combining computed tomography (CT) with fiber-coated surgical microcoils allows physicians to successfully locate and remove small lung nodules without the need for a more invasive procedure, according to ...
Ultrasound can help low-risk patients avoid invasive thyroid biopsy
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The prevalence of benign thyroid nodules is high and there are certain ultrasound features, suggesting malignancy, that can help radiologists determine whether or not a biopsy is needed, according to a study performed at ...
PET outperforms CT in characterization of lung nodules
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Researchers involved in a large, multi-institutional study comparing the accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in the characterization of lung nodules found that PET was far more reliable ...
Researchers Discover Fast-Growing Metal Deposits in a New Hampshire Lake
Nov 01, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered metal-rich sedimentary deposits in a New Hampshire lake that grow faster than any other deposits found in the United States. Understanding the environmental ...
Why the swamp sparrow is hitting the high notes
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the ...
Corticosteroid injections may be helpful to manage vocal fold polyps without surgery
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Corticosteroid injections appear to offer an alternative to surgery for treating polyps on the vocal cords, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...
A mechanical model of vocalization
Nov 23, 2009 |
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When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...
MGH researchers report successful new laser treatment for vocal-cord cancer
May 06, 2008 |
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An innovative laser treatment for early vocal-cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), successfully restores patients’ voices without radiotherapy or traditional surgery, which can permanently damage ...
Newly revised guidelines for managing thyroid cancer published in Thyroid journal
Nov 05, 2009 |
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The American Thyroid Association has released new, revised Management Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. The new guidelines are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journa ...
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