Middle ear infections are caused by bacteria or a virus that infects fluid that has builds up in the middle ear. These infections often happen when a child has a cold, allergy or upper respiratory ...

Dr. Lisa Mulligan shares important information on ear infections and what it means if they become chronic. Sponsored by ...

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 ...

Each year, nearly 700,000 ear-infection-prone kids in the U.S. are treated with surgically-implanted ear tubes. KatarznynaBialasiewicz/iStock At Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a Harvard teaching hospital ...

Dealing with ear infections in young children can be a difficult part of parenting. It’s a fact that Dr. Kathryn Halyko, a pediatrician at UnityPoint Clinic Pediatrics Cedar Rapids, knows firsthand, ...

Most toddlers with frequent ear infections don’t need ear tubes to preserve normal learning and behavior through primary school, according to a study challenging one big reason for these common ...

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 ...

The debate over tympanostomy tubes vs antibiotics for recurrent acute otitis media (AOM) in young children is long-standing. Now, results of a randomized controlled trial show that tubes do not ...

Ear tube surgery is one of the most common pediatric procedures in the United States, with more than half a million surgeries performed each year. In fact, by age 3, approximately 1 in 15 children ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new method of inserting ear tubes into children, a potential game changer for the more than half million children who receive tubes in their ears ...

Middle ear infections are caused by bacteria or a virus that infects fluid that has builds up in the middle ear. These infections often happen when a child has a cold, allergy or upper respiratory ...