Cotton swabs “really weren’t made to clean your ears — all they do is just push the wax deeper down into your ear canal and this causes an impaction,” Dr. Tonia L. Farmer, who goes by Dr. Nose Best, ...

Ear infections are painful and can potentially damage hearing. Sometimes they're misdiagnosed or even overdiagnosed. Now researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to help doctors get a better ...

Thurston Hatcher, like so many others, would use earbuds when he would exercise, but then his ears started to itch. “I would wake up in the night and actually have, at the risk of sounding gross, ...

This is the way to be ear-responsible. A UK doctor is sharing sound advice about how we should be cleaning our ears. “How should you keep your ears clean? You don’t,” the 31-year-old general ...

Earwax, medically known as cerumen, is a substance naturally produced by glands in the ear canal. It serves critical functions: Trapping dust, dirt, bacteria, bugs (really!) and other foreign ...

Using Q-tips to clean the inside of your ear canal can lead to wax impaction, irritation, and even damage to the eardrum.

Find out which hack can help protect your ears and reduce the strain on your hearing.

Swimmer's ear is the colloquial name for acute otitis externa, an infection of the outer ear. Though the nickname implies that you get the infection from swimming, you can contract swimmer's ear ...

Rumbling in your ear is usually a protective mechanism to protect your ear from damage. However, it may result from an underlying health condition, such as an ear infection. From ringing to rumbling, ...