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How to turn down the annoying ringing, buzzing and hissing of tinnitus

Although there’s no cure for tinnitus, help is out there – including sound-generating devices, background noise and talk therapy.

New app can hear if your child has an infected ear

It's one of the most common reason why parents visit a pediatrician.

Ultrasonic attacks are unlikely, but exposure to ultrasounds is unhealthy

Keep an eye out -- I mean, an ear out, for ultrasounds.

Why putting cotton swabs and other 'pointy' things inside your ear is a bad idea

Seriously, don't.

How hearing works and other eary functions

Hear all about it here.

Boy born without ears has a pair made from his ribs

Nine-year-old Kieran Sorkin was born without ears, but now, doctors made him a pair of ears from his own ribs. Kieran suffered from a rare condition in which his ears didn’t fully form – he had just small lobes where his ears should have been. He was almost deaf, but thanks to several previous procedures, […]

3D printer ear looks and works just like the real one

3D printing is like a piece of future in the present – the number and extent of applications are just staggering. Recently, researchers from Cornell University have reated an artificial ear using 3-D printing and injectable molds that works pretty much just like the real thing. In a study published in PLOS One, Cornell bioengineers […]

Medical devices powered by your ear

Your ear is a fascinating place – seriously, that’s not some psychotic pick up line. Deep in the inner ear of mammals lies a natural battery, a place filled with ions that produces an electrical potential which drives your neural impulses. Now, a team of researchers have shown this battery can power a device without […]

The Smell of Sound - how nasal stem cells treatment can prevent hearing loss

A research published earlier today in Stem Cells relates how stem cells scientists in Australia have managed to show that patients suffering from hearing disorders emerged during childhood could benefit from a stem cells procedure collected from one’s nose. The research focused on early-onset sensorineural hearing loss, which is caused by a loss of sensory […]