If you have tonsillitis, seek urgent medical care if symptoms last longer than 4 days, or if you’re having trouble breathing, eating, drinking, or opening your mouth. Tonsillitis is an infection that ...

A sore throat typically means you’ve caught a nasty cold, but for one woman, it was much worse. Lisa Gooddy was stunned to discover her sore throat was actually tonsil cancer, resulting in radiation ...

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Cough, cold, and upper respiratory infections tend to increase during the fall and winter months. Many of those infections are viral, and some are primarily or secondarily bacterial. In children, the ...

Social media users are claiming strep throat is skyrocketing, but Houston doctors say cases are typical for this time of year ...

Although there is not a lot of specific research to confirm it, the nutrients in lemons may be beneficial for those with sore throats, especially when paired with a soothing, warm liquid. Share on ...

In the United States, surgeons perform over 500,000 tonsillectomies each year, including more than 530,000 in children and adolescents to improve breathing while sleeping or reduce recurrent infection ...

Why do we have tonsils? asks Kevin Spellman of ManorvilleGot tonsils? The answer may depend on when you were born. Researchers say the number of tonsillectomies in the United States has plunged over ...

A FIVE-year-old boy who was sent home from A&E after his parents were told “there are no beds and not enough doctors” passed ...

Tonsil stones are tiny white or yellow deposits that form in the crevices and gaps on the surface of the tonsils due to the accumulation of bacteria, saliva, food remnants, and mouth lining cells.

It seems Doja Cat has been struggling with some medical issues this week. We know this because the rapper posted a series of graphic tweets on Thursday night (May 19) in which she ran down her ...

Singer Doja Cat has canceled a series of performances due to her health problems. On Friday, the "Say So" singer, 26, took to Twitter to share that she had to undergo "routine" surgery on her tonsils, ...