High Blood Pressure Medication Helps with Nasal Polyps!

Verapamil , a blood pressure medication, may help with an uncommon disorder called nasal polyps  that afflict certain individuals causing significant nasal congestion, nasal obstruction , smell loss, and chronic sinusitis . Nasal polyps appear like a cluster of grapes within the nasal and sinus passages leading to subjective sino-nasal symptoms. Although sinus surgery can physically remove the nasal polyps , whatever trigger caused their initial formation can lead to their regrowth. As suc…

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Aspirin Slows Brain Tumor Growth (Acoustic Neuroma)

Image from Wikipedia There is a type of benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma that causes progressive hearing loss on just one side. This non-cancerous tumor which arises off the balance/hearing nerve (cranial nerve 8) typically grows larger in size over time leading to not only hearing loss, but also dizziness, facial paralysis, and even death if large enough. Harvard researchers, however, have recently reported that aspirin may  appear to slow and perhaps…

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Synthetic Vocal Cords [video]

Synthetic vocal cords being under development at MIT and Harvard... Very good video ! What are some of the vocal cord problems that may benefit from such a synthetic gel? Vocal cord paralysis , vocal cord surgery to address polyps, cysts , nodules , granulomas , etc. As an FYI... the synthetic vocal cord gel portrayed in the video is still under development and not available for patient use yet...

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