Childhood ear ache - Middle ear ache (otitis media) is one of medicine's most common and overtreated conditions. But the medical literature shows that, except when sympt...

Ear ache: no antibiotics - Two independent studies provide a further nail in the coffin to treatment of childhood earache with antibiotics. ...

Ear ache : jabs for all - Two new examples of medical overkill have been announced to tackle that major problem of childhood: otitis media, or middle ear infections. ...

Otitis media - Try osteopathy before grommets - OTITIS MEDIA Try osteopathy before grommets Osteopathy offers a long-term solution to acute otitis media (AOM), a childhood ear infection usually tr...

Ear Infection: Doing nothing is as good as antibiotics - Around 15 million prescriptions are written every year in the USA for an antibiotic for children with the ear infection, acute otitis media.

Meningitis vaccine fails - A Finnish hospital has come up with a new approach to the prevention of acute otitis media in children between one and three years the flu vaccine! T...

Glue ear (otitis media): - Next, we have another mother with a health query concerning her three year old. This time, the child has glue ear, to the extent that it is causing he...

Probiotics may prevent diarrhoea due to antibiotics - The probiotics Lactobacillus and Saccharomyces boulardii (a yeast) are better than placebo in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, according to...