Sinus surgery may be effective but it is also one of the most feared elective procedures to treat sinusitis, a common health complaint that affects about 14 percent of the adult U.S. population.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Paul McBee had to do something: His sinus pressure had built back up, leaving him unable to breathe or sleep. But the 56-year-old Utica resident didn’t want the sinus surgery he’d had ...

People who have chronic sinus problems often complain of being tired, having headaches and losing their sense of taste or smell. Many would rather suffer or take medications than undergo complicated ...

With fall allergies upon us, and cold and flu season starting, more than one in eight adults will experience chronic sinus infection – sinusitis – this year. The result is nasal congestion, drainage, ...

WORCESTER — Francine Rochette had such clogged-up sinuses that she had headaches and sinus pressure and, most notably, couldn’t smell. “If you put a rose in front of me, I couldn’t smell it,” she said ...

This story first appeared in the April 2024 edition of Healthy You, a quarterly health publication and Gazette special section. While spring can be a torturous few months for seasonal allergy ...

It's springtime in Southeast Texas, and many Houstonians who would like to stop and smell the flowers can't because of sinus misery. Warm, damp weather makes Houston heaven for mold spores and hell ...

Alexandria, VA – A new and increasingly popular type of minimally invasive sinus surgery exposes patients to only “very low” doses of radiation during the procedure, a level considered to be safe, ...

SIOUX CITY | Facial pain, pressure and nasal drainage -- common symptoms of chronic sinusitis -- can now be easily treated in a select group of patients in a doctor's office under local anesthetic ...

If you suffer from constant sinus problems, and you’re sick of always having to take one antibiotic after another, keep on reading. There’s a procedure involving a balloon, that studies show is as ...

It’s like an angioplasty to clear out clogged sinuses. A new procedure lets doctors snake a balloon up the noses of chronic sinusitis sufferers, stretching their sinus passages to help them breathe ...

Raymond LeCatta can’t help but wish that advances in treatment for chronic sinus infections were around decades ago. But at least the 79-year-old can say he has a new lease on life after an ...