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Leonidas Hill recently made history at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, when the 5-year-old became the first pediatric patient in the western United States to undergo transoral robotic surgery (TORS)—a minimally invasive surgery performed with the help of a robot—to repair a rare congenital condition known as a laryngeal cleft. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-kindergartner-rare-robotic-surgery-ucla.html Surgery Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:01:45 EST news275547668 (HealthDay)—A frank and graphic nationwide media campaign to motivate smokers to quit seems to be working, say researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-campaign-smokers-victims.html Addiction Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:33:39 EST news271593204 Patients who have lost their voice box through disease such as throat cancer may be able to speak immediately after a procedure to create a small opening at the throat. A novel system developed through an Engineering-in-Medicine project led by Dr Chui Chee Kiong, NUS Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr David Lau, Consultant Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Surgeon at Raffles Hospital, cuts down a two-week duration before patients can speak, to about 10 minutes after the initial procedure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-one-step-voice-throat-cancer-patients.html Surgery Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:50:28 EST news268919408 (Medical Xpress)—Robotic surgery though the mouth is a safe and effective way to remove tumors of the throat and voice box, according to a study by head and neck cancer surgeons at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-robotic-surgery-mouth-safe-tumors.html Cancer Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:17:48 EST news267873213 A new epidemiological study led by UC Davis researchers reveals significant racial disparities in the use of non-surgical larynx-preservation therapy for locally advanced laryngeal cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-reveals-racial-disparities-voice-box-preserving.html Cancer Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:07 EST news261672860 Noah Jackson was born without a voice. Because of a rare genetic disease, his airway was so narrow he couldn't cry at birth. In fact, he could scarcely breathe, and had surgery when he was 5 days old to implant a tracheostomy tube that let air pass through a hole in his throat. Cuddling their newborn, parents KC and Rebecca knew Noah's only hope for someday speaking and breathing normally lay in the possibility that his voice box could be surgically reconstructed later on. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-surgery-packard-children-boy-airway.html Surgery Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:47:19 EST news261650818 (Medical Xpress) -- Doctors working at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, have for the first time, successfully implanted a synthetically grown integral part of the human larynx into two live human patients, restoring their ability to speak. The groundbreaking procedure is considered to be the first step towards creating an entire larynx using scaffolding and stem cells to replace a natural one damaged by accident or disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-doctors-successfully-implant-synthetic-larynx.html Medical research Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:04:00 EST news260172201 Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's tumor will be life threatening. The biomarker is considered particularly promising because it can detect the level of risk immediately following diagnosis. This discovery could become a component of a new test to guide how aggressively those with head and neck tumors should be treated. The findings were published online January 9 in the American Journal of Pathology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-molecular-fingerprint-outcomes-neck-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:27:42 EST news246544027 A Henry Ford Hospital study has identified 23 microRNAs for laryngeal cancer, a discovery that could yield new insight into what causes certain cells to grow and become cancerous tumors in the voice box. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-links-micrornas-laryngeal-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:23:20 EST news235138937 Robotic surgery has become a mainstream tool for removing an ever-increasing variety of head and neck tumors. Now, a team of head and neck surgeons from Mayo Clinic has found robotic surgery can treat cancer in the narrow, hard-to-reach area beyond the tongue at the top of the voice box. Some patients were able to avoid further treatment with chemotherapy or radiation, and most could resume normal eating and speaking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-robotic-surgery-effective-hard-to-reach-throat.html Cancer Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:06:04 EST news223318961