Ear aches and ear infections can be a problem for both children and adults. Earaches can be caused by an infection in the ear, outer ear, or ear can...
St. Jude Medical has received European approval for the company's AnalyST implantable defibrillator, featuring continuous ST segment monitoring, a tec...
This week a Boston College student was hit by a mass transit (MBTA) trolley in Massachusetts. By all reports, the trolley operator honked the horn to ...
A gene linked to susceptibility to autism, CNTNAP2, has also been connected to specific language impairment, the most common childhood language disord...
Antibiotics don't work for colds. Instead of recalling children's cold medications, this ED physician thinks the FDA should outlaw inappropriate antib...
[EDITORIAL NOTE: Darlene Costner of Darlene's HodgePodge was, as she explains below, otherwise engaged and unable to write a story for The Oldest Old ...
Dr. John House, of the House Ear Clinic in Houston, feels that the fictional doctor on Fox's TV series is at risk for deafness given the amount of Vic...
Siemens has developed a reprogrammable hearing aid designed to adapt along with the hearing changes of the growing child. From Siemens:Fitting a hear...