Up to half of all patients relapse. Why BPPV keeps coming back — and why our risk-factor tables predict individual patients so poorly — is one of the more honest open questions in neuro-otology.
Saliva production falls to almost nothing while you sleep — that part happens to everyone. So why do only some people wake up parched? Morning dry mouth usually has more to do with how you breathe at night than with your salivary glands.
Meta briefly limited free use of its Ray-Ban glasses’ hearing feature to three hours a month, then paused the plan on July 25, 2026. The episode exposes what actually separates smart glasses as hearing aids from the real thing — and it is not the microphones.
Allergen immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis changes the disease rather than the symptom. Fewer than one patient in ten completes the three years it requires. The gap is worth examining.
The Ménière’s disease low-sodium diet is standard advice with almost no trial evidence behind it. A look at its 1929 origins, the actual milligram target, which everyday foods blow past it, and when to ease off.
The video head impulse test takes about fifteen minutes, uses no water in the ear, and maps all six semicircular canals individually. Here is how it works and what the gain numbers actually mean
Cholesteatoma symptoms often look like nothing more than recurring earwax and a bit of discharge. Behind that quiet presentation is skin growing where skin does not belong — and slowly dissolving bone. Here is how it starts, how it is diagnosed, and why surgery is the only treatment that ends it.
Most laryngomalacia in infants resolves without treatment by the first birthday, but a small group needs more than reassurance. Here is how to tell the difference, what the diagnosis involves, and why recent evidence has changed the role of reflux medication.
The Fine Needle Aspiration vs Core Needle Biopsy decision is not about needle size. One samples cells, the other samples tissue with its architecture intact — and they fail in different ways. What the published data say about accuracy, sampling error, and complication rates in the head and neck.
More than a third of ears tested in hyperacusis patients show entirely normal thresholds. A look at hyperacusis symptoms and causes — and why no single test confirms the diagnosis.
