Approximately 40% of individuals treated for head and neck cancer experience the distressing adverse-effects of dry mouth syndrome. However, researchers in the Netherlands may have found a way to prevent impairing salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment. The researchers note this finding...
Designed for those seeking a more eco-friendly alternative to a gas-powered ATV, or grownups who simply never learned to ride a two-wheeled bike, the Athos is a pedal-powered quad racer that looks a lot safer to ride than the sum of its parts. More »
The April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery reports that patients who undergo chemoradiation therapy (CRT), who perform specific swallowing exercises after their CRT, experience a short-term improvement in swallowing. The study also reveals that after nine or twelve...
A naturally-occurring harmless human virus may be able to boost the effects of two standard chemotherapy drugs in some cancer patients, according to early stage trial data published in Clinical Cancer Research. RT3D, trade name Reolysin, is a new drug developed by Oncolytics Biotech Inc with...
Research led by Lauren Cole, a public health graduate student, and Dr. Edward Peters, Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the Epidemiology Program at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, reports that the incidence of head and neck cancer has risen at sites associated with...
Did you know that you can dislocate your neck and become temporarily paralyzed by just sneezing? Me neither, but that's exactly what happened to 28-year-old Monique Jeffrey: she dislocated two vertebrae when she violently sneezed. More »
Routine use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans in head and neck cancer patient follow-up can detect local recurrences before they become clinically apparent and may improve the outcome of subsequent salvage therapy, according to a study presented at the...
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on the back side of the neck going towards the upper shoulder. You know like in the movies how you see a guy hit a guy karate chop style and it makes them pass out but instead of it being in the front its in the back of the neck and its been hurting for months.. this all started...
I'm having pain on the left side of my neck...it starts all the way from the bottom of my head to all the way down almost my whole neck....but it's not actually my neck that hurts its the skin on my neck that's what is hurting. I seem to have a small bump where the pain starts (on the very...
okay so I have a fat neck, under my chin, right now. It's flabby.. but it doesn't feel SUPER loose. DO you think I'm young enough for it to go back to normal if I lost 50 lbs?
I have had my baby 9 month old conure for about a month now. She is getting very used to me, and my lovebird. She eats and drinks, and is completely normal! Its just that, sometimes she wants to come up and sit on my shoulder. I try not to let them sit there too much cause it means dominance...
Okay, I have tourettes and my tick is that I constantly crack my neck and move it around. Usually when I crack it or move it around, other people can't hear it but I can perfectly fine (it makes a weird lock like grinding sound) the thing is though, my neck hurts because of all this. Really...
lets get this season on the move already,
you already do what love most plus get paid millions for it.
agree to owners terms and get back out on the court!
There are no emergency vets around here, but I am planning on taking her in first thing in the morning. Earlier tonight before we found the spot she had been vomiting and pooping a lot! Does it sound like a bug bite?
Patients who have high-risk non-melanoma skin carcinomas of the head and neck may benefit from concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy, according to a UNC-led study. Their study is the first to report on multiple patients with these skin carcinomas treated simultaneously with radio-and...
worried about meningitis? She says her head hurts and this morning she stated she felt like vomiting but then she went to school and except for score stiff painful neck was fine. Hard to get her to tell me exactly whats going on with her.
In extra time of Anzhi's 1-0 Russian Cup loss to Dynamo Moscow, Samuel Eto'o decided to show that just because he's now the highest paid footballer in the world doesn't mean he's gone soft.
After sending a header just over the bar from right in front of goal, Eto'o stood up and grabbed a...
Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from lighting up right away. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed...