Health
Why is my snot green? How deep are my sinuses? Fascinating facts about mucus, noses and sprays
Our noses perform important functions every day of our lives, but we often only notice when disease changes how they work.
Jun 7, 2023
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News tagged with nasal cavity
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experimental 'decoy' protects against SARS-CoV-2 infection
An experimental "decoy" has provided long-term protection from infection by the pandemic virus in mice, a new study finds.
May 30, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Brain-eating amoeba' led to a death in Florida. What you can do to avoid infection
The old "get out of the water" fear once was stoked by a fictional shark tale set off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
Mar 7, 2023
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Medical research
Advantages and challenges of anti-COVID nasal vaccination: The promises of a French approach
Contrary to the widely shared popular belief, the primary purpose of current vaccines against COVID-19 is solely to protect against serious forms of the disease in order to prevent the risk of hospitalizations and death… ...
Feb 14, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nasal injections could treat long-term COVID-19–related smell loss
Early in the pandemic, when people with COVID-19 began reporting that they lost their sense of smell, Zara Patel, MD, figured as much. A professor of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine, Patel has, for years, studied loss ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Medical research
Scientists pinpoint COVID-19 virus's entry and exit ports inside our noses
Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line.
Jan 10, 2023
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Neuroscience
New cellular component with importance for the sense of smell discovered
Researchers at Umeå University have discovered a previously unknown cellular component, an organelle, inside neurons that we use to perceive smell. The discovery may have implications for further research on impaired sense ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 virus can affect vision and depth perception, finds study
Researchers are investigating whether the COVID virus can affect vision and depth-perception of those infected.
Dec 21, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Loss of smell following COVID linked to a person's immune reaction to the infection
A team of researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the New York State Psychiatric Institute has found that a person's ...
Oncology & Cancer
AI facilitates breakthrough in sinonasal cancer diagnostics
Although tumors in the nasal cavity and the paranasal sinus are confined to a small space, they encompass a very broad spectrum with many tumor types. As they often do not exhibit any specific pattern or appearance, they ...
Nov 29, 2022
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