It’s easy to complain about modern medicine, what with the fluorescently-lit waiting rooms, healthcare debates, the list goes on. But truth is, we have it pretty good. Just think: in the 1940s you ...

Congenital atresia ear reconstruction is a surgical procedure to create an ear canal in children born without one. The procedure aims to improve hearing and the appearance of the ear. Congenital ...

Microsurgery just achieved what seemed impossible: Chinese surgeon Qiu Shenqiang successfully grafted a human ear onto a patient's foot as a life-saving reconstructive measure. The procedure, ...

Children who are born without a fully-developed ear are getting new help from a procedure by a Torrance surgeon that uses a state-of-the-art prosthetic. Being born without a fully-formed ear impacts ...

A labyrinthectomy is a surgery to remove the labyrinth in the ear. The labyrinth is a structure that usually helps with balance. A doctor may recommend a labyrinthectomy if an issue with the labyrinth ...

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 ...

The history of medicine is disgusting. In neolithic times, people drilled holes into their skulls as part of an ancient process called trepanation. Some cultures believed that a hole in your cranium ...

For more than 5,300 years, it lay undisturbed beneath a Stone Age tomb in northern Spain, hidden among the remains of nearly 100 people. When archaeologists finally uncovered the ancient skull, they ...