A “HEALTHY” four-year-old girl was left “paralysed” after undergoing a procedure to remove her tonsils. The cause – known ...

“When the eustachian tube becomes blocked, usually due to a cold or allergies, fluid can build up in the middle ear and will not drain through this tube.” This trapped fluid creates an ideal breeding ...

Writing on his own and for Washington Monthly and Mother Jones, he earned a reputation as a serious policy thinker. He also invented Friday cat blogging. By Clay Risen Kevin Drum, who gave up his ...

When bacteria infect the middle ear by way of a perforated eardrum, it leads to an infection with symptoms of earache, fever, and fluid accumulation. Fungal ear infections: Fungus growth in ...

Our friend and colleague Kevin Drum passed away on March 7. He was 66 and had been living with multiple myeloma for 11 years, and being the extraordinary journalist he was, he had taken readers ...

A CSF leak occurs when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) escapes from the protective layer surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This is a serious condition that can cause headaches, seizures ...

One day in early 2004, I called my senior editor at the Washington Monthly, Josh Marshall, with a proposition: Would he be interested in moving his blog, Talkingpointsmemo.com (TPM), which he was ...