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		<title>Cold and Flu Season 2011 &#124; Bundle Up. It&#8217;s Going to be a Bumpy Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s..be..ginning to look a lot like Christmas.&#8221;  I&#8217;m a little weird about holiday songs.  I don&#8217;t like to hear them every November and December, but I sing them January through October.  When fireworks are going off on The Fourth of July, I&#8217;ll hum John Philip Sousa&#8217;s &#8220;Stars and Stripes Forever&#8221; with interludes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vocal Cord Nodes &#124; The Sound of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adele is British? She doesn&#8217;t sing with an English accent. She sounds like she&#8217;s from Louisiana with a mint julep in one hand and a burning cigarette in the other. When I first heard about Adele from a rather hip friend, I ignored her, thinking Adele would fade away quickly like other &#8220;hot&#8221; from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sicca &#124; &#8220;How Dry I Am&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ricky Gervais at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards was anything but dry&#8211; well, except for a few dry martinis, I&#8217;m sure.
Wow, now I like humor, but I thought at times he went a liiiiitle too far to insult his guests. To paraphrase Kathy Griffin, it&#8217;s more polite to make fun of celebrities behind their backs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing Loss &#124; What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Charlie Brown&#8217;s schoolteacher talked like this, &#8220;Wah waah wah waah.&#8221; Maybe I have a hearing problem, but I don&#8217;t think The Peanuts adults articulate well. Snoopy talks better than they do. 
If you talk to someone who can&#8217;t hear well, they will often blame you. One hard-of-hearing person used to say to us, &#8220;You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (Video) &#124; Ears Burning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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 Ears burning? Maybe someone is talking about you! It&#8217;s like that Bonnie Raitt song, &#8220;Something to Talk About.&#8221; Or&#8211; could it be that you&#8217;re paranoid or super egocentric? 
Really, in the end, it doesn&#8217;t matter what people think about you&#8211; but then again, as I&#8217;ve learned on Wisteria Lane (i.e. Desperate Housewives), it does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasal Polyps &#124; And other nose traffic jams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maggie Moo, our beloved hound, sniffs everything. Her nose is like a bank of knowledge. We can drive somewhere, and without even looking out the window, she can smell where she is. If we drive to the vet, her nose tips her off, and she starts to shake with dread. When we drive to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laryngitis &#124; Shhhhh&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Eustachian Tube Dysfunction &#124; Ears Burning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ears burning? Maybe someone is talking about you! It&#8217;s like that Bonnie Raitt song, &#8220;Something to Talk About.&#8221; Or&#8211; could it be that you&#8217;re paranoid or super egocentric? 
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		<title>Strep Throat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strep Throat is caused by Group A Streptococcus, Strep throat causes fever. Strep throat causes swollen glands. Strep throat has swollen tonsil. Strep is contagious
 
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		<title>Swimmer&#8217;s ear</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/swimmers-ear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swimmer&#8217;s Ear is otitis externa. Swimmer&#8217;s ear occurs 10% Americans. Ears burning might be otitis externa. Swimmer&#8217;s ear causes ear pain, itch, hearing loss
 
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		<title>Tinnitis: Ringing in your ear isn&#8217;t from someone talking about you</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/tinnitis-ringing-in-your-ear-isnt-from-someone-talking-about-you-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Laryngitis &#8211; AAAAaaahhh&#8230;.umph!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Elton John is the Rocketman. In October, I could &#8220;Feel the Love Tonight&#8221; when he sang &#8220;Your Song&#8221; at the JPJ here in Charlottesville.
But how in the world did he sing three hours nonstop without even clearing his throat? With so many rock singers destroying their voices of the years, Sir Elton has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimmer&#8217;s Ear &#8211; Are your ears burning?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/swimmers-ear-are-your-ears-burning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad we had this time together&#8230;.&#8221; Sing it, Carol Burnett! I actually have an autographed photo of Carol. She&#8217;s funny, vibrant, talented, and very giving. At the end of the show, she would always do her trademark move: the ear tug. Wiggle wiggle wiggle&#8230; Goodnight! 
But if someone has otitis externa (aka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Breath&#8230;of Fresh Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Garlic is food for the gods! Should I also include goddesses? (In Hollywood they no longer say actors and actresses; everyone is an actor. So to be more equal opportunity, shouldn&#8217;t I just say gods?)
Back to garlic, I love garlic&#8211; overall. I cook with it a lot! But like some women retain water during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strep Throat &#8211; Say, &#8220;Ah!&#8221; &#124; Strep Throat &#124; Group A Strep</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/strep-throat-say-ah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The life insurance business doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. Why would a company base earnings on the hope that none of its clients bite the dust? It&#8217;s so Russian Roulette. My college buddy works for a major insurance company, so I decided to apply for term life insurance through him. Little did I know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPV &#8211; Benign Positional Vertigo &#8211; Get off the Merry Go Round</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Eighties music will live in my heart like a Celine Dion song. Okay, ix-nay on the eline-Cay ion-Day part. My mother sang opera before she went to medical school, and so I was raised on classical music. Rock and roll music made my mother swoon-while singing a high C-aaaaaah! So I didn&#8217;t really get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tinnitis: Ringing in your ear isn&#8217;t from someone talking about you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vincent van Gogh is one of my favorite painters of all time. He was so ahead of his time that he didn&#8217;t know his &#8220;Starry Night&#8221; painting would look like a type of lymphoma under the microscope! 
It&#8217;s so sad van Gogh didn&#8217;t make money with his paintings. In fact, rumors abound that he sold [...]]]></description>
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