Word: nasality
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...most teenagers. When taking her son to see an ear, nose and throat specialist for recurrent ear infections, she innocently asked the doctor why she could hear her heart beating when she went to bed. He thought she might have some sinus problems and prescribed some antibiotics and a nasal spray. When she had no relief from her heart's nightly lullaby, she returned to the doctor who ordered a CT scan to further evaluate her sinuses. The CT scan revealed that her sinuses were fine, but she had a brain aneurysm located behind her ear. When she consulted...
...again reassured the family that Seth was the picture of health and that the nosebleed was most likely the result of some overzealous nasal hygiene exacerbated by recent cold weather. I walked them through how to treat nosebleeds if Seth were to have another one and the constellation of symptoms that would necessitate another visit to the doctor. Again, I was met with blank stares...
...says Dr. Sonja Olsen, the IEIP's acting director. In rural hospitals in Sa Kaeo province, which borders Cambodia, patients who are initially diagnosed with pneumonia - the sort of severe respiratory disease that could be confused with bird flu - are now immediately tested for bird flu. Their blood samples, nasal swabs and chest X-rays are double-checked for the H5N1 virus at sophisticated labs in Bangkok and Atlanta, allowing doctors to catch an outbreak almost before it begins. Yet even these defenses are not bulletproof. Last fall, after more than a year without any human H5N1 cases, five Thais...
...almost double a man's chances of developing diabetes, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Meanwhile, the FDA approved the smallest diabetes testing system available, Sidekick, to join the list of recently developed tools for diabetics, including blood-sugar monitors with less painful laser lancets and nasal sprays and inhalers for delivering insulin...
...body. Phoenix is 5 ft. 8 in. When music supervisor T-Bone Burnett told him his basic mastery was all right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader of the indie band Blanche, who plays Cash's lead guitarist, Luther Perkins. Phoenix spent months rehearsing by himself, even writing his own songs to "see what it felt...