by Richard Harvey | Feb 15, 2020 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog, Uncategorized
Im always impressed by the enthusiam and skill of my colleagues in Asia. I recently spent the last 4 days in Bangkok as part of a visiting professorship with the otoRHINOlaryngology team at Chula Hospital. King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital is a public general and...
by Richard Harvey | Sep 14, 2019 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog
The Sydney Sinus Surgery course is one of the longest running sino-nasal disorder courses in the world. It was established by Prof Richard Gallagher in 1998 and is now in its 12th year with Prof Richard Harvey and has a new co-director with Dr Raewyn Campbell. The...
by Richard Harvey | Mar 5, 2019 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog
I was recently presented, by a patient, with an invoice from another surgeon, for $14,500. This wasn’t a major procedure nor critical service. The symptoms were nasal congestion, itchy eyes, dermatitis, childhood asthma and tiredness. There was only one single...
by Richard Harvey | Nov 11, 2018 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog
When we can’t smell, the sensation is very disturbing. The flavor of food that we detect is 70% related to smell. Smell or olfaction is such an important but often underated human sense. Our sense of smell is one of the most primitive sensory functions in...
by Richard Harvey | Oct 27, 2018 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog, Scientific advancements in nose and sinus diseaes
So much is still poorly understood about the disease process that drives the formation of nasal polyps. For a long time now, the medical community acknowledges that the origins of adult-onset nasal polyps is primarily an inflammatory disorder (as is...
by Richard Harvey | Sep 15, 2018 | Interesting articles on nose and sinus disease, Nose and Sinus Blog, Scientific advancements in nose and sinus diseaes, Uncategorized
We have all experienced the post nasal drip or mucus sensation. It is not uncommon for all of us to have such sensations at the tail end of a viral upper respiratory track infection and when we are dehydrated. We see a lot of patients that have these symptoms, and...
