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 famous body modification artist cut out a client’s inner ear in “conch removal” surgery, for aesthetics. “To get some facts straight note that this procedure doesn’t make you deaf,” wrote Maiber ...

Many hearing implants won't help people with inner ear damage or auditory nerve problems, but the brainstem implants that do frequently do an incomplete job. Soon, however, there might be a far better ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons are helping to pioneer a trend that extends the advantages and benefits of minimally invasive surgery to patients who need middle ear surgery. Head and neck ...

Fiona Klimczak, 60, was the first patient at The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, to receive the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Medics who treated him would often refer him from one facility to another, but none ...

"A new adventure of having to get a cochlear implant. I was scared. But once I met Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Schadt, I knew there was nothing to worry about. I have never in my life met such supporting ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of the inner ear.

Cancer in the ear is mostly infrequent. Usually, onset of the cancer occurs on the skin in the outer ear. Out of 100, nearly 5 skin cancer are advances as an ear cancer, in which, the internal ear ...

Surgeons from the University of Kentucky in USA, University of Nairobi and Nakuru County conducted an Ossicular chain reconstruction surgery to a patient at Rift valley Provincial General Hospital ...