Ear tube surgery, or tympanostomy surgery, aims to reduce chronic fluid buildup behind the eardrums. This can reduce the frequency of middle ear infections. It may also improve hearing. Ear tube ...

A 14-year-old Poway Unified School District student is a finalist in a competition for her invention of headphones that detect and treat mid-ear infections. Leanne Fan, who attended Mesa Verde Middle ...

Ear infections are the most common reason parents take their child to a doctor. In fact, data shows that 5 out of 6 children will have at least one ear infection by their third birthday, making ...

A middle ear infection often causes symptoms like ear pain, discharge, and hearing difficulties. Most ear infections go away within 2-3 days. Symptoms like high fever or sudden hearing loss require ...

Eliene Augenbraun, D.O., Ph.D., is a lifelong science and health journalist whose mission is to make sense of complex concepts. She led ScienCentral, a broadcast television newsroom that supplied ...

Your Eustachian tubes are located inside each ear, on the sides of your head. These tubes connect your middle ear to the back of your nose and throat. When you hear your ears pop after swallowing or ...

A new design for an old device might revamp treatments for one of the most common childhood ailments in the United States. Doctors have given placed metal or plastic tubes in patients’ ears to fight ...

An ear infection, acute otitis media, is a painful infection in your middle ear. Ear infections can happen in children and adults of all ages, typically after a cold, sore throat, or other respiratory ...

Sometimes, earache and headache occur together. A few conditions can cause this, such as middle ear infections and migraine. The treatment for ear pain with headache depends on what’s causing it. Ear ...

Otitis media is an inflammatory infection of the middle ear, commonly following upper respiratory infections, especially in children. It presents with ear pain, fever, hearing loss, and discharge.

Exposure to cigarette smoke, including passive smoke exposure in children, may contribute to or increase the risk of ear infections. Smoking and exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke can have harmful ...