Earbuds, often thought to clean earwax, actually cause harm by pushing wax deeper, irritating the ear canal, and increasing infection risks. Your ears are self-cleaning; this habit disrupts the ...

Many people use Q-tips or cotton swabs to clean their ears, believing that this is an effective method due to the Q-tip's ability to remove earwax and the satisfying sensation it provides. However, ...

When it comes to cleaning our ears, mindlessly poking at the wax with a cotton bud could be doing more harm than good, a leading GP has warned. Dr Suraj Kukadia, a 33-year-old NHS GP from ...

Take this as someone who has struggled with an incurable condition called tinnitus for more than five years now; not due to unbalanced hearing loss, we often ignore ear health more than is perhaps ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

"Although we don't fully understand tinnitus, we think it's a brain issue rather than simply an ear problem," says Elina Kari, MD, a neurotologist and an assistant professor of surgery at UC San Diego ...

Because the inner ear is not organized spatially, sound localization relies on the neural processing of implicit acoustic cues. To determine a sound's position, the brain must learn and calibrate ...

First aid refers to the immediate care given to an injured or ill person until full medical treatment is available. You might perform CPR for cardiac arrest, apply pressure to stop bleeding, or use an ...