A 12-year-old girl presents to the guest columnist’s office with a red, painful right auricle. The onset was yesterday, and it is worse today. There is no history of fever or injury to the ear, and ...

The ear canal is a small, tube-like pathway that extends from the outer ear to the eardrum. A range of health problems can affect this sensitive area, including infection, inflammation, and injury. In ...

Ear cancer is rare. Most often, it begins in the skin of the outer ear. Out of 100 skin cancers that develop, approximately 5 occur in or around the ear. In the United States, about 200 patients are ...