Medically reviewed by Arno Kroner, DAOM Ear infections often develop due to allergies or an upper respiratory infection.

Middle ear tubes For some children and adults, middle ear infections don't clear up even with antibiotics. Other people may ...

When the air pressure changes rapidly, the tympanic membrane may bulge outwards or pull inside, causing pain in the middle ear. Meniere’s disease is a condition that affects the inner ear.

Hearing loss is when you’re unable to partially or completely hear sound in one or both of your ears. It can occur in the outer, middle, or inner ear. Hearing loss typically occurs gradually ...

We think of ears as these flappy appendages that stick out of our heads. But the most important structures are actually on the inside, and they're known as the inner and middle ear. Iram Ahmad ...

land animals evolved external ears as sound collectors and middle ears as mechanical force amplifiers. It is fascinating that the tiny bones in the middle ear appear to have evolved from gills that ...

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 ...

The evolution of the mammalian ear is well documented and makes a nice evolutionary story. The ear consists of three parts: inner, middle, outer ear Some vertebrates lack middle and outer ear ...

A tympanometer is a hand-held probe that is placed in the ear to measure energy transmission through the middle ear. It can be used to test the condition of the middle ear, determining whether it ...

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 ...