"Recurrent tonsillitis can be a real pain in the neck. The tonsils sit in the back of the throat and form part of a ring of ...

Bartos also recommended creating a one-page health summary to have on hand. “Include the most important details: allergies, ...

Tonsillitis itself is not contagious. However, “the viruses and bacteria that cause tonsillitis are highly contagious and can ...

Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats, doing chest X-rays before every surgery, removing tonsils in preschoolers, even doing annual physical exams on otherwise healthy adults. How have those ...

Sleep apnea is common among individuals with Down syndrome because they typically have decreased muscular tone and are ...

However, the operation to remove tonsils can be performed at any age - nearly 21,000 of these operations were performed on children and young teenagers in 2000/2001. What is involved in the operation?

Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, explains the functions of tonsils and when you should consider getting them removed. This content was originally produced for audio. Certain elements such as tone, ...

Even medicine is susceptible to routines that are not backed by science, says CBC Nova Scotia health care columnist Mary Jane ...

Tonsil stones, also known as tonsilloliths, are small, hard lumps of food, bacteria, and other particles trapped in the small ...

Elton John joked about his long organ-removal list and said there’s “not much of me left” after numerous health struggles ...