Genetics: A New Frontier in Otology

Infecting epidemiology with genetics: a new frontier in disease ecology.

Disease ecologists strive to understand the causes and consequences of parasite infection, including the emergence, spread, persistence and evolution of infectious disease. These processes can be illuminated by parasite genetic markers, which can be used to track parasite spread and infer population history. Recently, a growing number of studies have used molecular tools to examine questions on...

Expanding RN Scope of Knowledge-Genetics/Genomics: The New Frontier.

Introducing a new competency into nursing practice requires the support of nursing leadership. A knowledge survey was used to assess nurses' knowledge following a yearlong genomics education initiative. Findings indicate that nurses benefit from repeated exposure to genetics-related content. Recommendations from this study include development and implementation of strategies that can be used to...

What's new in otology--the inner ear.

IN Part I Mr. Gordon Smyth has paid tribute to those who have gone before us and pioneered the advances which he has just described for the middle ear and which I am going to describe for the inner ear, and I would like to add my tribute to his. SYMPTOMS These are tinnitus, vertigoi and deafness, occuring either singly, in pairs, or all together. 1. Tinnitus This is always associated with some ...

Otology

In the year 1887 I reported in this Journal1 a case of septic thrombosis and phlebitis of lateral sinus following middle-ear disease, which went on to a fatal termination, as all cases of the kind did at that period. But in the preceding year Mr. Victor Horsley had made the valuable suggestion 2 that ligature of the internal jugular vein might arrest the flow of septic material into the blood; ...

Practising otology and neuro-otology in Singapore.