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Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in Atlanta, Georgia at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. There were more than 90 outstanding presentations by our...

New research findings from a study led by Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, show the potential of a new oral drug for spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder affecting the muscles of the larynx or voice box. The work was published last week in Scientific Reports. The study shows that sodium...

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who matched in the Harvard Otolaryngology Residency Program this year. We hope that you will join us in welcoming them this June. We are thrilled with the results of the match and look forward to their arrival: Ryan Bartholomew 7-year research...

Androgenic alopecia is a common type of hair loss in both men and women. This condition can be surgically corrected through a hair transplant, which is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia. A team of researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, led by facial...

Harvard Medical School Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Steven D. Rauch, MD, was an invited speaker at last month’s TEDx Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. TED is a nonprofit organization that's devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks on topics...

We are pleased to present the Summer 2019 Issue of The Registry, which is the semi-annual newsletter of the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School. Inside you will find: A contemporary interpretation of Dr...

Harvard Medical School Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery faculty Dr. Konstantina Stankovic and Dr. Jeffrey Holt discussed the latest research behind hearing loss reversal in a new podcast recorded from the The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Research Symposium on Hearing. Both...

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...

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, the Harold F. Schuknecht Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has recently announced his decision to step down from his leadership positions as director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories (EPL) and as vice chair for Basic...