As headphone use becomes increasingly prevalent in our digital age, the potential risk of hearing damage from loud volumes ...

Here’s what’s happening when you feel that ear pressure, the most common causes behind it, how to find relief and when it may ...

Noise-cancelling earphones by themselves don't damage your ears - in fact, they can help you listen at safer levels. The real ...

Wearing EarPods for long hours may harm your ears from infections and earwax buildup to hearing loss An ENT expert explains ...

It turns out, you shouldn’t use a cotton swab to clean out your ears. Your ears are self-cleaning machines, with very little maintenance required. One of its best defenses? Earwax. Earwax is a ...

Most of us have done it. After a shower, you grab a cotton swab, tilt your head, and twist it gently inside your ear. It ...

Chronic otitis media (chronic ear infection) occurs when fluid behind your eardrum becomes infected and does not go away with antibiotics. Unlike swimmer’s ear that affects the external ear canal, a ...

“My general recommendation for people is let the body do its job,” Lustig said. “Let that skin migration with the wax come out on its own. Take a wet washrag onto your finger and clean out whatever ...

You may've heard that the average human swallows several spiders a year in their sleep (totally false, per Britannica) — but what happens when a spider makes its way into your ear? The answer to that ...

You’re making a left turn and when the arrow turns green, someone isn’t paying attention, and too much time passes before the light turns red again, and you weren’t able to make the light. You’re ...