Recognition after COVID-19 Recovery
In April, Mass. Eye and Ear transformed the 10th floor inpatient unit into an acute medical unit to care for COVID-19-positive patients who were transferred ...
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Is Singing in a Choir Safe During COVID-19? A Voice Expert Explains the Risk
Many industries are navigating the stress and aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, and performance arts has taken a devastating hit. According to a national panel ...
Virtual Doctor Visits 101: 5 Frequently Asked Questions
Across the globe, people are continuing to adjust their lifestyles due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the changes many patients are experiencing is meeting ...
Is Sudden Hearing Loss an Emergency?
When someone suddenly loses his or her hearing, it’s hard to know what to do or when to get help. Ear specialist Steven Rauch, MD ...
What Can Help with Sleepless Nights Caused by COVID-19?
During this unprecedented public health crisis, COVID-19 concerns and the resulting impact from the pandemic have been causing anxiety for many, and for some, leading ...
Navigating COVID-19 with Hearing Loss
An expert offers tips for technology and every day advice that might help people with hearing loss when having to distance for COVID-19. Watch a ...
Are Contact Lenses Safe to Wear During COVID-19?
Suspicions are arising that contact lenses may raise risk for COVID-19 transmission. Amy C. Watts, OD, director of the Optometry and Contact Lens Service at ...
Not Missing a Moment
Deborah Hoberman spent years thinking the symptoms she was experiencing were a normal part of aging. She learned her assumptions were wrong after receiving care ...
COVID-19 and Loss of Smell: A Mass. Eye and Ear Expert Weighs in
Eric Holbrook, MD, comments on the reports of loss in smell and taste related to the new coronavirus. Emerging reports suggest a loss of smell might ...
Promising Early Findings on First-of-its-Kind Retinitis Pigmentosa Therapy
Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of blinding eye diseases caused by more than 150 different gene mutations, making effective therapies difficult to develop. A new ...
7 Questions with Chief Ophthalmology Resident Dr. Grayson Armstrong
Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, chief resident of the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Program and director of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Ocular Trauma Service, gives ...
Collaborative Eye Research Focused on Eliminating Blindness Worldwide
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear are working toward eliminating blindness, with a particular focus on areas of greatest unmet medical need like age-related macular ...
