Original Medicare may cover ear cleaning if a doctor deems the procedure medically necessary. Medicare Advantage plans may also cover this. Learn more here.

This paper proposes an efficient skin-color and template based technique for automatic ear detection in a side face image. The technique first separates skin regions from non skin regions and then ...

Ear tube placement surgery is a procedure to put in synthetic ear tubes to vent and drain the middle ear. Learn about ear tube placement, how to prepare, what to expect, and recovery. Medically ...

Ear irrigation is an important procedure for nurses that helps with different ear problems, like earwax buildup, outer ear infections, and removing small objects. This article explains the skills ...

You've probably used cotton swabs to clean your ears. Here's why ENTs say you shouldn't. (Getty Images ...

You may have been using cotton buds for cleaning ears for a long, but do you know it can pose risks and harm your hearing ability? Impacted earwax, ear canal injuries, perforated eardrums, and ...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has its self avowed eyes and ears—and there are five: Senators Pepper of Pennsylvania, Swanson of Virginia, Shipstead of Minnesota, Brandegee of ...

Earwax protects your ear, but sometimes you have too much, which can cause discomfort and block hearing. Learn why earwax builds up and what to do about it.

It also seemed like every kid in elementary school constantly had an ear infection at all points of the school year. Hence, the ear tube kids. But what are ear tubes exactly, and why is this common?