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 ...

Using a combination of 3-D printing and cultured cells, scientists in China have grown new ears for five children born with a defect in one ear called microtia, which impacts the shape and function of ...

An ear infection is caused by a bacterium or virus in the middle ear. Children are more likely than adults to get ear infections. Dreamstime/TNS “My ear hurts.” There are many conditions that can ...

Chronic ear infections could delay a child’s language development, new research suggests. University of Florida researchers launched a study about how the common childhood infection could impact ...

It's not unusual for kids to experience ear pain during flights because of the changes in air pressure. A mom's video of her steam trick to combat this is going viral, and while it may seem helpful, ...

Boss is the director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Pediatrics, and Health Policy & Management at Johns Hopkins University. Tunkel is the director ...

MUKILTEO — Ears are a big deal, especially if you aren’t born with them. What’s up with that? Dr. Prabhat Bhama, a surgeon, and his wife, Trish, a nurse practitioner, are in Guatemala this week on a ...

Thousands of kids in Colorado get ear tubes every year. It's one of the most common pediatric procedures, even though it can get expensive and requires general anesthesia. But, that's now changing at ...

PHILADELPHIA – What is that on Ryan’s nose? Ringworm? The bumpy red rash didn’t seem to bother the 5-year-old, but his mother, Georgina Rupnarine of Philadelphia brought him to see an ear, nose and ...

Listen to an interview with Adam Hersh, M.D. Black children are less likely to be diagnosed with and less likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics for ear infections than white children are, a new ...

Children with ear infections so severe that tubes have to be inserted in their ears early in life hear as well as other youngsters by the time they reach their teen years, a study said Monday.

MILLCREEK — Ten-year-old Brihanna Rodriguez has struggled with being teased at school. "(They say) that I have a deformed ear and it looks like an elf ear," she said. "Usually I have my hair down to ...