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Boston, Mass. — Deaths from treatable conditions may cost the world trillions of dollars each year, according to a newly published analysis led by Harvard Medical School researchers believed to be the first to quantify the economic impact of insufficient access to high-quality medical care. The...

New Findings in Dystonia - Dr. Simonyan's research is highlighted in the Spring 2018 issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. “Continuation of [dystonia] research is vital in determining the exact causes and mechanisms of this disorder. This knowledge will be crucial for the future development of novel...

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on June 21. The ceremony, held at Mass. Eye and Ear, celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2017-2018 chief resident, and two optometry residents, as well as 21 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear...

This paper, " Mixed-model association for biobank-scale datasets" (Loh et al. 2018 Nat Genet), explores best practices for genome-wide association analyses in very large cohorts.

A recent article published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery showed evidence that 1 in 7 children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have signs of hearing loss that could be attributed to noise exposure from portable music players (PMPs). The association of PMP use with hearing loss has...

Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, presented her latest study on environmental factors for developing spasmodic dysphonia, which showed that stressors influencing the sensory feedback from the larynx and upper respiratory tract represent major risk factors and are associated with abnormal cortical...

Last weekend, Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was one of seven speakers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) 2018 Technology Day symposium. The program focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, wondering if we can truly design...

Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab. A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 22, to celebrate the 2018 graduating class of residents and fellows. Four chief residents and 13 clinical fellows graduated from the...

We are pleased to present our latest issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. Inside this issue: Mapping the Landscape of Head and Neck Cancer: Head and neck surgeons develop atlas that may help predict the likelihood of cancer spread Corneal Reinnervation: Surgeons develop new procedure to circumvent...