Eyes, ears, nose and throat — the specialties of the special senses, where small structures carry large consequence.
10 topics · 10 curated works
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World Report on Vision
World Health Organization · 2019
Documents that uncorrected refractive error and cataract account for most of the world's vision impairment, framing global blindness chiefly as a…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
The Pathology, Symptomatology and Diagnosis of Certain Common Disorders of the Vestibular System
Margaret R. Dix & Charles S. Hallpike · 1952
Describes a positional test that reproduces vertigo and a characteristic eye movement in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, giving clinicians a…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
Intra-Ocular Acrylic Lenses: A Recent Development in the Surgery of Cataract
Harold Ridley · 1952
Reports the first implantation of an artificial lens after cataract removal, arguing from early results that a permanent internal lens beats external…
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10 works
World Health Organization
Documents that uncorrected refractive error and cataract account for most of the world's vision impairment, framing global blindness chiefly as a failure of health-system access rather than of medical knowledge.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Estimates disabling hearing loss will affect one in four people by 2050 and argues most of it is preventable or treatable, even though ear and hearing care remains among the most under-resourced parts of health systems.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Margaret R. Dix & Charles S. Hallpike
Describes a positional test that reproduces vertigo and a characteristic eye movement in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, giving clinicians a simple bedside way to localise a vestibular disorder to the inner ear.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jeri A. Logemann
Establishes videofluoroscopic swallow study as the standard method for diagnosing dysphagia, and sets out the compensatory and rehabilitative strategies that follow from identifying exactly where in the swallow the failure occurs.
Wytske J. Fokkens et al.
Sets out international consensus definitions and a stepped treatment approach for acute and chronic rhinosinusitis, standardising a diagnosis that had previously been made inconsistently across specialties.
Jaimie D. Steinmetz and Rupert R. A. Bourne
Finds that most global blindness remains from cataract and uncorrected refractive error — both cheaply treatable — so the burden is largely a failure of service delivery rather than of medicine.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Harold Ridley
Reports the first implantation of an artificial lens after cataract removal, arguing from early results that a permanent internal lens beats external spectacles despite prevailing scepticism about placing foreign material inside the eye.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Pawel J. Jastreboff
Proposes that tinnitus is generated in the auditory pathway but amplified by the brain's own attention and emotional systems, the model behind habituation-based tinnitus therapies.
Age-Related Eye Disease Study Research Group
Reports a randomised trial finding a specific high-dose antioxidant and zinc formulation slows progression to advanced macular degeneration in high-risk patients, the first evidence-based medical treatment to delay this cause of blindness.
Robert N. Weinreb, Tin Aung & Felipe A. Medeiros
Argues glaucoma should be defined by progressive optic nerve damage rather than elevated eye pressure alone, since some patients progress at normal pressure even though lowering pressure remains the only proven treatment.
link checked 17 Sept 2026