It's surprisingly easy for your headphones to damage your hearing

Here’s how to keep your ears in good shape—so you aren’t kicking yourself 10 years down the road.

 Sudden hearing loss is a health emergency — but few people know it exists

A clogged or ringing ear may belie a more serious health problem.

 What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones

I realize the dangers inherent in this overall trend—I might even go so far as to call it “socially alienating” and “destructive of relationships”—but I nevertheless feel it’s inexorable.

 Why Are Human Ears Shaped That Way?

The shape of the ear has a big effect on how one hears, with the outer flap, or pinna, acting as a sound gatherer.

Harming Your Hearing: The Obvious Hows and Whys to Which Many People Are Deaf

For most of us, our ears simply seem to take care of themselves. But when you're exposing them to overloud music, things can change, and not for the healthier.

Can’t Hear in Noisy Places? It’s a Real Medical Condition

New studies of causes and treatments for deterioration in your brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations, also known as hidden hearing loss.

Ear-Popping Questions

For many patients, it can be difficult to alter existing travel plans due to illness, so it is important that we educate patients about what to do if they experience trauma to the ear and symptoms persist after flying.

Flying and Your Child's Ears

If your child has an ear infection, your doctor may recommend delaying flying, if possible, until the infection is gone to avoid increased pain and possible rupture, or tear, of the eardrum. In kids who have had tubes inserted in the eardrums because of ear fluid problems, the artificial tubes will help the air pressure equalization happen more easily.

Hearing and Understanding ONE Voice Among Many Sounds

Have you ever wondered how is it that a normal hearing human being can hear and understand one person talking in an environment where there are many other people talking just as loudly be it a restaurant, conference, county fair, etc?

Human Ear Contains a Built-In "Ear Plug"

According to one Australian researcher, by just chewing a gum or singing/talking loudly, one could be protecting your ears from noise-induced hearing damage. How???

Intranasal Treatment for Clogged Ears

A common cause of clogged ears with inability to pop them easily is due to eustachian tube dysfunction. There are a number of ways to address this annoying problem, but one of the first steps to try is intranasal medications whether in nasal spray form or nasal drop form.

Now Your Smartphone Can Be Used To Diagnose Ear Infections At Home

Why does the company want to make it easy for doctor's and parents to peer inside their kids' heads? Because ear infections are the number 1 reason children are taken to see pediatricians and often why they end up in the emergency room.

Should Hearing Aids Be Sold Over-the-Counter?

Should hearing aids be sold at local pharmacies like a pair of reading glasses? It is a question that federal lawmakers are now considering with bipartisan legislation to create a new category of hearing aids sold over-the-counter for people with mild to moderate hearing loss.

Teens (People) Who Listen to Music Loudly... A Possible Solution

Now parents may not like this, but I do have a possible solution to getting teenagers to turn the music volume down so not to damage their hearing... Get them noise-cancelling headphones

That Wax in Your Ear Shouldn't Be a Burning Candle

utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+Health+Blog%29&mod=smallbusiness Consumers should “steer clear of ear candles – hollow cones that are about 10 inches long and made from a fabric tube soaked in beeswax, paraffin, or a mixture of the two.”

What Caused Beethoven's Hearing Loss?

When Beethoven composed his 9th Symphony, it was an amazing accomplishment especially when considering he did so totally deaf. It has been a medical mystery as to what caused his slowly progressive hearing loss to the point of deafness, but a recent publication suggests it was due to chronic low-level lead exposure consumed from wine tainted with lead.

Where Have All the Ear Infections Gone?

There’s another factor that is probably contributing to the decline in ear infections, and it has to do with tightening the definition of what we call a true otitis media, and even beyond that, what we treat.