Ears are arguably one of the most important features of the body and a defining feature for most of us. But they don't just control our hearing, there's a lot more going on inside. They are essential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: @otisbegotus / Instagram) Dogs with big ears often struggle when their floppy ones flip inside-out, and in an ...

Researchers analyzed both human and mouse inner ear tissue, and generated in vitro cellular models of the human inner ear. They found human inner ear tissue contains the “molecular machinery to allow ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes. When this newly discovered function goes ...

There are many types and causes of sensorineural hearing loss, i.e., hearing loss associated with damage to the inner ear, rather than say, a punctured ear drum. You can lose hearing from exposure to ...

Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders have identified a previously unknown mechanism that destroys the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, a discovery ...

Dark, diamond-shaped spots in inner ear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are not always signs of pathological ...

This man’s medical emergency will have have you reaching for a Q-tip. Doctors in China were shocked to discover that a man’s earache was caused by around a dozen cockroaches that had hatched in his ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism that drives the death of inner ear hair cells, the tiny sensory structures responsible for converting sound into brain signals. The discovery ...