RSV Vaccine Effectiveness: What the Numbers Actually Show
One virus, two diseases, three licensed vaccines. A look at what RSV vaccine effectiveness really means once you separate adults from infants — and season one from season three.
Medical Log
Patulous Eustachian Tube Treatment: What Actually Works
Hearing your own breathing after losing weight is not imagination — it is a tube that has stopped closing. Patulous eustachian tube treatment runs from saline drops to silicone plugs, and the honest question is how much any of it actually achieves.
Does Mouth Taping Help Snoring? What the Evidence Shows
Does mouth taping help snoring? One study halved snoring events. Another found airflow got worse in 22% of patients. The difference was not the tape — it was who was using it.
Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Adults: What Gets Missed
Hand foot and mouth disease in adults rarely follows the childhood script. Why the palms can be spared, why the mouth can stay clear, and why some patients lose fingernails six weeks after they thought they had recovered.
Why BPPV Keeps Coming Back: What We Know and What We Don’t
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.
Why Your Mouth Is Dry Every Morning: The Saliva Science
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.
Smart Glasses as Hearing Aids: What Meta’s Paywall Revealed
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: Why the Only Disease-Modifying Treatment Is Not First-Line
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.
Ménière’s Disease Low-Sodium Diet: What the Evidence Says
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.
Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT): Procedure and Results
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