Discover the common causes of ear pain and the possible sources of referred pain. Find out why your ear might hurt when it's not infected ...

Hough Ear Institute has developed a rat model of tinnitus and hidden hearing loss to advance research into new treatments for the chronic condition.

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

The most common cause? Colds. When secretions get trapped in the middle ear, viruses or bacteria can cause an infection and result in a bulging or reddened eardrum. Children under 3 are most ...

Abstract: This paper describes the design and development of a small actuator using a miniature piezoelectric stack and a flextensional mechanical amplification structure for an implantable middle ear ...

The ears produce earwax to help keep the ear clean and protect the inner ear from infection. Earwax naturally moves out of the ear, carrying dead skin cells and debris, where it will then dry out ...

The ringing, sigh, the relentless ringing. “It’s just one long, monotonous siren,” laughs Dubai-based Arundhati Mudliar, a homemaker. She didn’t always have this ringing, tinnitus as it is called: It ...

About the Esteem® Fully Implanted Active Middle Ear Implant (FI-AMEI ... severe sensorineural hearing loss allowing for 24/7 hearing capability using the ear's natural anatomy. The Esteem FI-AMEI ...

Tympanosclerosis refers to scarring of the eardrum, or tympanic membrane, and middle ear due to infection, surgery, or injury. Symptoms do not always develop. Surgery or hearing aids may help.

The inner ear contains distinct sensory organs, produced sequentially by segregation from a large sensory-competent domain in the developing otic vesicle. To understand the mechanistic basis of this ...

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