About a million kids get ear tubes every year to help drain fluid and treat recurrent ear infections. A new way of performing the procedure was approved by the Food and Drug Administration a few ...

Ear tubes are commonly used in children who are more likely than that adults to get middle ear infections (otitis media). Children are at greater risk because the horizontal position of the ...

Placing ear tubes in young children who develop fluid in the ears does not improve speech, hearing or psychological development, according to new Placing ear tubes in young children who develop ...