Medical Xpress

Have you heard? Middle ear, mastoid harbor SARS-Cov-2 and may pose risk for medical staffs

A team of otolaryngologists and pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, can colonize the middle ear and ...

Buried for 5,300 years beneath a Stone Age tomb, a skull discovered in Spain has revealed the world's earliest known ear surgery

For more than 5,300 years, it lay undisturbed beneath a Stone Age tomb in northern Spain, hidden among the remains of nearly ...
Medscape

Severe Acute Mastoiditis Admission Is Not Related to Delayed Antibiotic Treatment for Antecedent Acute Otitis Media

Overall, 512 children with acute mastoiditis were admitted during the study period; of whom, 278 (54%) were boys and 236 (45%) girls. The mean age at admission was 38 months (range, 6 months to 14 ...
Ars Technica

This 5,300-year-old skull shows evidence of the earliest known ear surgery

Archaeologists have excavated a 5,300-year-old skull from a Spanish tomb and determined that seven cut marks near the left ear canal are strong evidence of a primitive surgical procedure to treat a ...