What Doctors Don't Tell YouEarly use of antibiotics provides only modest benefit for acute otitis media, concludes a major meta analysis. ...
Many young children are undergoing needless operations, according to a bulletin funded by the Department of Health. ...
Hearing loss can often be prevented and alleviated through simple dietary and environmental changes. ... ...
Two recently released studies which crossed my desk this month make a telling statement about the way that the West has chosen to care for small children in the late Twentieth century. ...
Middle ear ache (otitis media) is one of medicine's most common and overtreated conditions. But the medical literature shows that, except when symptoms such as pain, discharge and the like are s ...
Two independent studies provide a further nail in the coffin to treatment of childhood earache with antibiotics. ...
Antibiotics are largely ineffective in treating recurring ear infection in children, according to an analysis of 33 studies looking at this method of treatment.
A Finnish hospital has come up with a new approach to the prevention of acute otitis media in children between one and three years the flu vaccine! The study showed that incidence of acute otitis ...
My father is in his mid-60s and suffers from hearing loss. He has to wear hearing aids in both ears and, inevitably, he suffers from infections and painful ears. He went to his doctor to ask for drops
This story begins with a verruca, which belonged to my daughter, Frances, six years old and a frequenter of swimming pools. We tried to get rid of the thing with a selection of plasters that look ...
