The ears are a pair of sensory organs whose primary functions are hearing and balance. They are divided into three portions: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Each has an intricate ...

Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no ...

It also offers some insight into the condition of the middle ear (ME), although to a lesser extent. Clinicians utilize an otoscope as part of routine wellness physical examination and when assessing ...

The brain is a never-ending machine that receives, processes, and sends out countless messages every day. Sound is just a fraction of the many stimuli that the brain receives daily, but it is one of ...

Eliene Augenbraun, D.O., Ph.D., is a lifelong science and health journalist whose mission is to make sense of complex concepts. She led ScienCentral, a broadcast television newsroom that supplied ...