The prevalence of laryngeal pathologies in an academic population.

Objective: The main purposes of the present study were to determine the prevalence of laryngeal pathology and voice disorders and to identify their associated risk factors among the workers, teachers, and nonteachers, from a Portuguese university.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methodology: A total of 101 participants have volunteered to participate in a voice survey.

Use of cepstral analyses for differentiating normal from dysphonic voices: a comparative study of connected speech versus sustained vowel in European Portuguese female speakers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the use of cepstral peak prominence (CPP) and CPP-smoothed (CPPs) to differentiate dysphonic from nondysphonic voices, using two speech tasks: sustained vowel /a/ and connected speech.

Study Design: A retrospective study was based on data selected from an archival database of recorded voices.

Methods: Sixty age- and occupation-matched individuals (30 participants with dysphonia and 30 controls) were recorded producing the sustained vowel /a/ and reading the European Portuguese version of "The Story of Arthur the Rat.

A new device for treatment of persistent otitis media with effusion.

Objectives: Most children suffer from otitis media with effusion (OME) before starting school. Insertion of grommets into the eardrum for treatment of OME is one of the most common operations performed in childhood. The efficiency and compliance of treatment with a new non-invasive device was evaluated in children with bilateral OME with disease duration of at least 3 months.