Biomedical engineers at Lehigh University and Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh probe causes of eustachian tube dysfunction in hopes of finding new treatments for ear infections
It will come as no surprise to parents that the most common illness among small children in America today is the middle-ear infection.
Each year, Americans spend $5 billion on ear infections. Doctors often prescribe two different antibiotics for the same infection. For more serious cases, they perform 500,000-plus surgeries annually, by inserting a tube in the ear drum to alleviate pressure caused by infections.
Kurt Pfitzer | EurekAlert!
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