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MedPage Today  Apr 20  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Tonsillectomy followed by radiation therapy led to better survival in patients with early-stage tonsil cancer compared with radiation alone, a retrospective analysis suggested.
MedPage Today  Apr 2  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Tonsillectomy may be the best option for adults with recurrent, severe sore throat.
MedPage Today  Oct 15  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Although children gain weight after tonsillectomy, they are not more likely to become overweight or obese after the surgery, a single-center study showed.
Clusterstock  Sep 16  Comment 
This post isn't about politics. It's about HPV--Human Papillomavirus. HPV has been in the news lately after Michele Bachmann went after Rick Perry for trying to force all girls in Texas to get vaccinated. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't....
MedPage Today  Jun 21  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Just one of the newer technologies for tonsillectomy confers significant advantages in terms of operation time and postoperative pain over the traditional surgical procedure, researchers said.
New York Times  May 2  Comment 
No one really knows how to explain the connection, but studies do show a link between the surgery and weight gain.
New York Times  Apr 11  Comment 
New guidelines suggest tonsillectomy for recurrent sore throats only if frequent or severe, but the operation may be considered for children with trouble breathing while they sleep.
Sydney Morning Herald  Feb 14  Comment 
WAS IT a cunning plan by Joe Hockey and Bill Shorten to boost their profiles, a ploy by Mr Hockey to use Mr Shorten to destabilise Julia Gillard, or a combination of something in between?
MedPage Today  Jan 17  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Polysomnography may help predict which children are likely to have complications following outpatient adenotonsillectomy, a retrospective case-control study suggested.
NPR  Jan 6  Comment 
If a child has had fewer than seven throat infections in the past year, then it's probably a good idea to hold off on tonsil surgery, according to advice from a group of experts. More than 530,000 kids in the U.S. get tonsillectomies each year.





 


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