Cut out antibiotics for ear ache

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...