Can Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?

I first blogged about this possibility in 2010 [ link ], but at that time, there were too many conflicting studies that definitive conclusio...

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Jaw Movement Causing Tinnitus and/or Clogged Ear Sensation

Not uncommonly, a patient can present with complaints of tinnitus , clogged ears , and hearing loss influenced by jaw movement. Specifically...

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Where Does Tinnitus Come From? Ear or Brain?

It is invariable that when a patient comes to an ENT office complaining of tinnitus or ringing of the ears that only they can hear, that th...

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How Much Caffeine is Present in Coffee? Decaff? Chocolate?

©  Radu Razvan Gheorghe  |  Dreamstime Stock Photos There are quite a few ENT problems that can potentially be due to caffeine intake. Even ...

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Mozart May Help with Tinnitus

Currently, there is no fast, good, and cheap way of resolving tinnitus . Tinnitus is in essence hearing a ringing or buzzing that does not e...

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Sheryl Crow Blames Brain Tumor on Cell Phone Use

On the inaugural episode of Katie Couric's new talk show Katie , Sheryl Crow described her history with a brain tumor called meningioma ...

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Will.i.am Suffers From Tinnitus

And yet another celebrity reports suffering from bad tinnitus or ringing of the ears. Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am spoke with Britain...

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Do Cell Phone Makers Secretly Know Cell Phones May Cause Health Problems?

Recently, there has been much speculation on whether cell phones pose a health risk. Wikipedia has a nice summary of those concerns. What I...

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Caffeine Can Cause ENT Problems

After reading an interesting article in Forbes that described caffeine as a natural pesticide (for real!), I thought I would pipe in and r...

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WP Medical Mystery: Sudden Hearing Loss

The Washington Post on 7/27/10 published a story in its Medical Mystery segment describing a patient who had sudden onset of hearing loss ...

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Regular Cell Phone Use May Cause Tinnitus

Regularly using a mobile phone for at least four years seems to be associated with doubling the risk of developing chronic tinnitus (persis...

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Bursts of Fast Irregular Clicking Noise in the Ear

Every once in awhile, I see a patient who complains of an irregular clicking (or vibration) noise in the ear that occurs in bursts and may l...

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