Use of the chinchilla as a model of middle ear infection in auditory research necessitates accessing the middle ear to collect samples or inoculate bacteria. This column describes a simple ...

Middle ear infection in children is much more common than in adults, in part because of how this part of the ear is designed.

Medically reviewed by John Carew, MD Pain behind the ear could be related to the ear itself or nearby structures that share a ...

Earwax is your friend. A gooey and somewhat gross friend. Next and last stop, the middle ear. We are now looking at an actual eardrum. The eardrum's a thin piece of skin, and other tissues ...

Sensorineural hearing loss is a type of hearing impairment that occurs when there is damage to the cochlea of the inner ear ...