Smell and taste

In these two years, like never before, these two essential senses, yet generally little considered and even less valued, have come to the fore. Only in 2004 Richard Axel and Linda B Buck received the Nobel Prize for Medicine "for discoveries in the field of olfactory receptors and the organization of the olfactory system." That is to say that we are still working to fully understand this sense of ours. Let’s clarify some points.

World Voice Day 2024

In 1999 in Brazil, Dr. Nedio Steffen, then president of the Brazilian Society of Laryngology and Voice, proposed a day to raise awareness...

National Mother Tongue Day - 2nd post of 2

In the first post we briefly paid attention to listening, which allows us to distinguish between one language and another and, very...

February 21, World Mother Language Day

“Mother languages, in a multilingual approach, are essential factors for the quality of education, which is the basis of the emancipation...

Importance of the vocal tract and its controls in wind musicians

Contrary to what some think, the vocal tract plays a fundamental role in wind musicians. It is not only a distinctive feature of the...

DRY MOUTH, DRY THROAT … AND GRANDMA.

Perhaps not everyone knows that ... for the ICD10, the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, these...

(NOT) only candies - Herbs activities, interactions, cross reactions

From prehistoric times, man learned that plants had nutritional but also "healing" properties. The "men of medicine" were replaced /...

To mask or not to mask?

Perhaps this would be the question of a modern-day Hamlet. Among the various effects of the pandemic, "masks" from simple devices such as...

UEP 2023 - Antalya Phoniatrics Congress, 30th UEP Congress

"Meet Dr Calcinoni … She is a confirmed faculty in UEP 2023…. Dr ORIETTA CALCINONI lives and works in Milan, ENT HNS and Phoniatrician,...

Vox Politica, vocis feminarum

Tonitruant. In Treccani Italian Dictionary "that thunders, that makes the noise of thunder ... referring to a person who makes a lot of...

The melting pot of Voice

In 2001 I signed up for a congress, never imagining how much it would change my life: PEVOC 4, Pan European Voice Conference, Stockholm.

Please participate in our survey GCCR!

What we eat/drink may help prevent or facilitate recovery from COVID-19 and COVID-19-induced long hauling symptoms, including the...

The Scientific Method and Doctor Google

As a Phoniatrician I deal with communication and its pathologies. I have always been fascinated by the different languages that each of...

Do the ears go on holiday?

As far as it is believed, medicine is still a young science and in progress with respect to the appearance of our species. Since less...

40! But do I look them?

On 20 July 2022 at 3.30 pm it will be forty years since my degree in Medicine and Surgery. In a large classroom of Milan University, with...

Let's talk of voice. 3 - My Voice DOES NOT exist!

We were taught at school that sound is transmitted at different speeds in solids, liquids and gases. My voice is made of air, or rather a...

We just lacked smallpox!

(Warning. Although many points will recall behaviors that we adopted during the COVID pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 is a completely different...

Visualize the effectiveness of the singer's work

We know a lot about the singer's breathing needs and techniques. If Falloppio and Mercuriale already noticed in the sixteenth and...

Science and Art of the Voice Conference - 22 aprile 2022

After two years of researches in the old Library of Milan Conservatory of Music, about books written by Laryngologists and Singing...

What is restorable and what is not

In 2018, as VMPCT, I funded the restoration of the harp in the Music Room of the Masino Castle. The restoration took place in the...

There are droplets and droplets

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought attention to what was already a long-standing problem linked to pollution: particulate matter.