An ear infection is caused by a bacterium or virus in the middle ear. Children are more likely than adults to get ear infections. Dreamstime/TNS “My ear hurts.” There are many conditions that can ...

Ear infections are the most common reason parents take their child to a doctor. In fact, data shows that 5 out of 6 children will have at least one ear infection by their third birthday, making ...

(CNN) -- Parents of young children are often all too familiar with ear infections. The pain, the fever, the tear-filled nights almost seem like a rite of passage for children in their first two years ...

Five out of six children will have at least one ear infection by their third birthday and it is at this particular time of year that the little ones might be coming home from school repeatedly with ...

Is it just fussiness or a severe ear infection? Doctor helps us decode what an ear infection actually looks like and how one can deal with it.

When I was a child, I became accustomed to ear infections. At least once a year, I would feel the telltale symptoms: pressure, the uncanny feeling of being underwater when I tried to swallow, and ...

Each year on March 3, the world observes World Hearing Day, led by the World Health Organisation (WHO), to raise awareness ...

Listen to an interview with Adam Hersh, M.D. Black children are less likely to be diagnosed with and less likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics for ear infections than white children are, a new ...

”My ear hurts.” There are many conditions that can trigger this complaint from a young child. Depending on the symptoms, causes of earache in children include a foreign object in the ear, the common ...