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Dr. Gregory Randolph, Harvard Medical School Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Division at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has joined the Internal Liaison Committee at ENT & Audiology News. ENT & Audiology News is a powerful communicative tool within the global...

The Harvard Medical School Department of Otolaryngology had excellent representation this week at the 41st Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) in San Diego. Our faculty contributed 142 presentations, several of which earned very prominent positions on the...

The Harvard Medical School Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery recently hosted its second biennial Comprehensive Otolaryngology CME course at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston. Directed by faculty members Nicolas Y. BuSaba, MD, John M. Dobrowski, MD, FACS, and Gregory W. Randolph...

We are pleased to present our latest issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. Highlights include: Exploring the Auditory Cortex Investigators believe that a key hub for brain plasticity exists within layer 1 of the auditory cortex A Cochlear Implant for the NoseProof of concept research may accelerate the...

In a study recently published in Nature, a team of Boston Children’s Hospital and Mass. Eye and Ear investigators including Artur A. Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, discovered that the coat protein of hair-cell stereocilia, known as Polycystic Kidney and Hepatic Disease 1-Like 1 (PKHD1L1), is required for...

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...

On September 12, 2018, Massachusetts Eye and Ear hosted its annual Boston Thyroid Club meeting. Founded and directed by Drs. Gregory Randolph and Paul Konowitz, both members of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery Division at Mass. Eye and Ear, this meeting began as the first otolaryngology...

We are pleased to present our latest issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. Inside this issue: Inner Ear Optogenetics: Researchers use optogenetics to transform cells in the inner ear to respond to light Seeing Further: Endoscopic Orbital Surgery: Surgeons use endoscopic approaches to remove orbital...

Boston, Mass. — The loss of tiny cells in the inner ear, known as “hair cells,” is a leading cause of hearing loss, a public health problem affecting at least one out of three people over the age of 65. Of the two varieties of hair cells, the “outer hair cells” act as micromotors that amplify...

Clinicians and researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with a team of researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a research institute and university in Switzerland, are developing next-generation hearing implants that may allow those...