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How Can I Keep My Voice Healthy During Winter?

Breath in Winter

October 21, 2024
By Greg Richter

As winter approaches – replete with COVID, flu, colds and other ailments – so does the season of throat clearing. But this hem, ahem, hawk, cough, or tickle in the throat doesn’t have to linger on and off until spring. The stakes are particularly high for professional singers, as well as those in professions heavily reliant on voice, such as teachers, elected officials, clinicians, attorneys and many others.

Robert Thayer Sataloff, MD, DMA, professor and chair of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at Drexel University’s College of Medicine, shared insight on how cold air impacts our vocal folds, debunks some misconceptions about voice and what we can do to sound our best during the cold and throughout the year.

An award-winning physician, educator, inventor, singer, conductor, and extensively published researcher, Sataloff is a world leader in otolaryngology and the voice.

Read more at Drexel University's Drexel News Blog.


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