Each year, more than 500,000 ear tube surgeries are performed on children, making it the most common childhood surgery performed with anesthesia, according to the American Academy of ...

Doctors have been putting in a lot of ear tubes. It's the most common outpatient surgery in children. Despite how common the tubes are, it's been hard for parents to know if and when a child should ...

Middle ear infections are caused by bacteria or a virus that infects fluid that has builds up in the middle ear. These infections often happen when a child has a cold, allergy or upper respiratory ...

Tympanostomy or ear tubes did not lower the rate of acute otitis media, or middle-ear infections, among children, compared to antibiotics, according to research published May 13 in The New England ...

Each year, nearly 700,000 ear-infection-prone kids in the U.S. are treated with surgically-implanted ear tubes. KatarznynaBialasiewicz/iStock At Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a Harvard teaching hospital ...

Thousands of kids in Colorado get ear tubes every year. It's one of the most common pediatric procedures, even though it can get expensive and requires general anesthesia. But, that's now changing at ...

Ear tube surgery involves making a small cut in the eardrum and inserting a synthetic tube. An adult might need ear tubes ...

Children with hearing loss who get ear tube surgery to address chronic ear infections may need tests before and after the procedure to see if their hearing improves, a U.S. study suggests. When kids ...

Most toddlers with frequent ear infections don’t need ear tubes to preserve normal learning and behavior through primary school, according to a study challenging one big reason for these common ...

A new design for an old device might revamp treatments for one of the most common childhood ailments in the United States. Doctors have given placed metal or plastic tubes in patients’ ears to fight ...

Ear tube surgery is one of the most common pediatric procedures in the United States, with more than half a million surgeries performed each year. In fact, by age 3, approximately 1 in 15 children ...