When we breathe, one nostril is more closed than the other and so has a slower rate of airflow. That slower flow of air means ...

Your nose is a vital organ that plays a central role in bodily functions like breathing and smelling. However, there are additional functions that your nose participates in. Likewise, there are a few ...

That coarse, sometimes embarrassing hair growing in your nostrils might seem like nothing more than a grooming nuisance, but medical experts now recognize it plays a vital role in protecting not just ...

Nasal plastic surgery appears to improve nasal airway function in patients with severe nasal obstructions, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, ...

That persistent dry feeling in your nose might seem like just another minor annoyance in your day, something you dismiss with a quick swipe of a tissue. But what if that seemingly innocent dryness is ...

WASHINGTON — Eugene Passer had never heard of the turbinates, a set of tissues that lie in the nasal cavity. Then a doctor removed much of them, he says, and life became a mess. A New York college ...

Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first ...

Patients with poor mental well-being and low self-esteem had poorer perceptions of nasal function compared with patients with good mental health. Poor mental well-being and low self-esteem were ...

A new computer simulation of domestic cats’ noses suggests that the convoluted nasal structures involved in their sense of smell function similarly to parallel coiled gas chromatographs—laboratory ...

Deemed one of the most challenging procedures in plastic surgery—one where “millimeters and symmetry really matter,” notes Philadelphia facial plastic surgeon Jason Bloom, MD— rhinoplasty (the “nose ...