Ear, Nose, Throat

A novel study has shed more light on the known fact that people using earphones to listen to music may suffer hearing damage.

Experts delving into the difficulties associated with unilateral hearing loss found that kids whose one ear is impaired but can hear normally in the other experience significant learning problems and are unable to comprehend and use language properly.

A novel study revealed that listening to music at high volumes could lead to hearing loss.

Even if you don’t smoke, you still might be affected by the fumes. A new study finds that passive smoking or inhaling other people’s cigarette smoke might be one of the major causes leading to sinus woes, rhinosinusitis, a runny nose or an itchy feeling.

Now treatments for inherited deafness may well be on its way. In a breakthrough research, scientists seem to have uncovered the genetic link associated with inherited childhood deafness.

Having overactive thyroids, a condition medically known as hyperthyroidism, at a younger age may raise early stroke risk, warns a novel research.

On March 11, the health officials announced that swine flu or influenza A (H1N1) took lives of three more people in country, taking the swine flu toll in India to 1,404 so far.

A recent American study finds that temporary deafness during childhood may lead to a form of "lazy ear" that causes hearing problems long after hearing is restored.

Though the H1N1 pandemic that swept through the nation killing and sickening thousands appears on its last leg, the risk has not yet abated, with the virus still circulating, albeit with lesser intensity.