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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 3D-printed polymer-based implant that could be used to repair a damaged eardrum is entering commercial development. The PhonoGraft hearing-restoration technology was developed by researchers at ...

Researchers have used evo-devo methods to determine that the eardrum evolved independently in mammals and reptiles/birds. Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory and the University ...

If you’ve ever had your eardrum rupture from trauma, infection, or a rapid change in pressure, you know how painful and debilitating it can be. Cleveland Clinic describes the ear as having three major ...

BOSTON - APRIL 15: Two explosions went off near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) With over 200,000 cases a ...

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 ...