A man who bit off part of another man's ear during an argument on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) was sentenced to 20 months' jail and three strokes of the cane on Mar. 12. After his release from jail ...

While most people think of their ears as being used to help them hear, the reality is that the ear is also home to some of the body’s most sophisticated balancing systems. This is a system that works ...

Dark, diamond-shaped spots in inner ear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are not always signs of pathological changes—they can simply result from how a person is positioned in the scanner. A ...

The first-ever comprehensive study to estimate the prevalence of otitis media (OM) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has revealed some of the world's highest rates of childhood middle ear disease. Published ...

Introduction Neuroendocrine adenomas of the middle ear (NAME) are uncommon causes of middle ear masses. Mostly limited to case reports and small series, the literature is poor in providing an overall ...

The inner ear is a marvel of evolution, but scientists are still puzzled over certain aspects of its operation. Two related studies detail how scientists successfully excised a sliver of an inner ear ...

To investigate the value of wideband tympanometry (WBT) in assessing middle-ear function after endoscopic type I tympanoplasty, and to analyze postoperative changes in wideband absorbance (WBA), ...

LMU neurobiologists have identified a neural pathway for processing magnetic information that originates in the inner ear. In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was amongst the first to ...

The three types of hearing loss are sensorineural, conductive, and mixed hearing loss. They each involve different parts of the ear and may have varying causes and treatments. Hearing loss in one or ...