If your ear is bleeding, it could be caused by anything from something stuck inside to a torn eardrum. The bleeding can come from the outer, middle, or inner part of your ear. The outer ear is the ...

(Reuters Health) - A sampling of U.S. emergency department records confirms that sticking anything smaller than your elbow in your ear is a good way to puncture an eardrum. About 66 percent of ...

Our ears are a delicate instrument, composed of a variety of elegant structures. Less than a millimeter thick, the eardrum or tympanic membrane receives information from our surroundings and transmits ...

Eardrum is said to be ruptured when a tear or hole is diagnosed in the thin membrane that separates the middle ear from the ear canal. It is also known as a tympanic membrane perforation. The eardrum ...

You may have heard of the condition glue ear in kids but what is it and how can grommets help? We all know little ones are ...

The type of perforation influences the healing rate. Eardrum perforations may heal in a few weeks if they are wet or acute. In certain cases, surgery may be required if the perforation does not heal ...

I want to review the diagnostic signs of acute otitis media (AOM) and present the results of a national survey of 82 pediatric infectious disease (ID) specialists and 58 pediatric otolaryngology ...

Excessive noise, hearing loss, vascular constriction, old age—hearing difficulties can be caused by many factors. To help improve the quality of life of people with hearing impairment, Mannheim ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory and the University of Tokyo in Japan have determined that the eardrum evolved independently in mammals and diapsids—the taxonomic group that ...

A user's alarming experience of sudden ear pain leading to a perforated eardrum after two years of using 50dB noise-cancelling earbuds has sparked widespread concern. Experts warn that while ANC tech ...