Consumer health: Kids and swimming safety
For many people, the hot summer days are often spent swimming at a lake or pool.
Jun 1, 2022
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For many people, the hot summer days are often spent swimming at a lake or pool.
Jun 1, 2022
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Babies and toddlers who need a tracheostomy—a tube surgically inserted into their windpipe to help relieve breathing problems—are at a high risk of accumulating fluid behind their eardrum when on a ventilator. That's ...
Apr 4, 2022
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The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) published the Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update) today in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Tympanostomy ...
Feb 9, 2022
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If Jen didn't fight to convince her doctors something was seriously wrong with her, there could have been fatal consequences.
Feb 3, 2022
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Bacteria found in children's upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing loss and deafness in Indigenous communities.
Nov 8, 2021
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Ear pain is one of the most common reasons that young children go to the doctor, and acute otitis media—which means "middle ear infection"—is the most frequent cause for the use of antibiotics in children under 5 years ...
Sep 21, 2021
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A team of otolaryngologists and pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, can colonize the middle ear and mastoid region of the head ...
Jul 29, 2020
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When the Eustachian tube connecting the back of the nose and middle ear becomes inflamed, infected or blocked, people can experience pain, discomfort and possible hearing loss.
Nov 7, 2019
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Chronic conductive hearing loss, which can result from middle-ear infections, has been linked to speech recognition deficits, according to the results of a new study, led by scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and published ...
Sep 6, 2019
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Ear infections are the most common reason that parents bring their children to a pediatrician, according to the National Institutes of Health.
May 15, 2019
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