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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Awarded More Than $5 Million from NIH To Study Spasmodic Dysphonia
March 11, 2013 
Mount Sinai is studying the causes and disease pathology to address an unmet need for treatments in people with this underdiagnosed disorder

New York Daily News - "Daily Checkup: Sleep Apnea, If Left Unchecked, Can Severely Impair Your Health"
September 5, 2012 

Mount Sinai Among Pioneers in Robotic Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer
August 28, 2012 
Mount Sinai has the largest and one of few programs in the world to treat head and neck cancers using robotic surgery.

News-Medical.net - "Treatment with Robotic Surgery Offers Dramatic Benefit for People with Head and Neck Cancer"
July 27, 2012 

Mount Sinai Presents Research on Robotic Surgery and HPV at Head and Neck Cancer Meeting
July 25, 2012 
Benefits of robotic surgery in smokers and nonsmokers and predictors of HPV-positive head and neck cancer presented at the 8th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center Rises to No. 14 in Best Hospitals Rankings by U.S. News and World Report
July 17, 2012 
The Mount Sinai Medical Center ranked 14th out of approximately 5,000 hospitals nationwide in the 2012-2013 "Best Hospitals" issue of U.S. News & World Report.

News-Medical.net - "Mount Sinai Offers Transoral Robotic Surgery For Sleep Apnea Treatment"
June 25, 2012 

Mount Sinai Brings Benefit of Robotic Surgery to Sleep Apnea Sufferers
June 25, 2012 
Mount Sinai, a pioneer in robotic surgery, is now offering the procedure to patients with sleep apnea, whose obstructive breathing prevents them from sleeping normally.

Mount Sinai Leads NYC in Best Doctors List from New York Magazine
June 6, 2012 
New York magazine named 129 Mount Sinai physicians to its “Best Doctors” list, more than any individual hospital in New York City.

HealthDay - Dr. Smouha: “Combo Therapy May Help Ease 'Ringing in the Ears'”
May 24, 2012 

Medical News Today - Dr. Tamar Kotz: "Swallowing Exercises Help Head And Neck Cancer Patients, Short-Term"
April 19, 2012 

Swallowing Exercises Associated with Short-Term Improvement in Function Among Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
April 16, 2012 
Eric Genden, MD, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology and researchers find that targeted swallowing exercises can help alleviate swallowing dysfunction.

The Asco Post - "Challenges, Progress, and Future Directions in Head and Neck Cancer
March 1, 2012 

The Oncology Report - "The Emerging Molecular Picture of Head and Neck Cancer and HPV Prevalence"
February 16, 2012 

NY Daily News - "Oropharyngeal cancers now rank as most common tumors"
January 10, 2012 

WABC-TV - "Boys Should Get HPV Vaccine Too, Panel Says"
November 1, 2011 

ABC News - "HPV Vaccine for Boys"
October 24, 2011 

The Wall Street Journal - "The Vocal Cord Injury Affecting Adele"
October 7, 2011 

WPTV - "HPV: The New Kissing Disease"
September 26, 2011 

CBS New York - "A Shocking Trend: HPV-Positive Throat Cancer"
July 25, 2011 

The Mount Sinai Medical Center Named to Honor Roll of America’s Elite Hospitals By U.S. News and World Report
July 19, 2011 
The Mount Sinai Medical Center ranks 16 out of nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide in the 2011-2012 “Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News & World Report, and earns a spot on the “Honor Roll.”

The Wall Street Journal-Throat Cancer Linked to Virus
June 3, 2011 

ABC News - Significant Rise in HPV-Related Throat Cancer in Men
June 1, 2011 

ABC News - "HPV-Related Throat Cancer on the Rise"
June 1, 2011 

NY Daily News-Oral Sex, HPV Puts Non-Smoking Men at Highest Risk for Oral Cancer: What Are the Facts?
April 18, 2011 

Maclean's - "A Cancer For The Young"
March 10, 2011 
Certain strains of oral cancer are on the rise. Could changing sexual habits be to blame?

The Mount Sinai Medical Center and ENT and Allergy Associates LLP Team Up to Fight Esophageal Cancer
March 1, 2011 
Academic and Community Medicine join to battle the fastest growing cancer in America which frequently presents with chronic cough

Healthy Living: A Lifesaving Partnership
October 17, 2010 
In a New York Times commentary, Wayne Eisman, MD, describes Mount Sinai's successful community and academic medicine affiliation with ENT and Allergy Associates.

Extra - "Extra's Lifechangers Examine Douglas' Throat Cancer"
August 17, 2010 
Dr. Kenneth Altman, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Mount Sinai discusses the causes and symptoms of throat cancer.

My Fox NY - "Michael Douglas Has Throat Cancer"
August 16, 2010 
Dr. Eric M. Genden, the chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and an associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Immunobiology at Mount Sinai, was a guest on Fox 5 News to discuss throat cancer.

Robotic Surgery Can Treat Sleep Apnea

People with sleep apnea can stop breathing more than 30 times an hour. Robotic surgery offers a permanent solution.

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