Some kids with enlarged tonsils have obstructive sleep apnea ... The ear, nose, and throat specialists, those ENT doctors, don't remove large tonsils with strep after only two or three infections a ...

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?

Years ago, the bar for removing tonsils was much lower as they were seen to cause many problems and of little use to the body, but nowadays, doctors are slower to remove them. Every time my ten ...

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

Nowthe mother whose first child had his tonsils removed when it was perhaps unnecessary ... and bronchitis occurs more frequently in tonsillectomized children and the same is true of pneumonia.

Elton John quips that "there's not much of me left" after operations to remove his tonsils, adenoids, appendix, right hip or ...

At one time, physicians removed tonsils after just one or two infections ... Most people who receive T&A are children, ...

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

Elton John is getting candid about his battle with several health issues over the years. "To be honest with you, there's not ...

Renowned British singer Elton John has opened up about his health, revealing that he has had numerous organs removed over the ...

Tonsil and adenoid surgeries are set to resume at McMaster Children’s Hospital after the procedures were halted in early June following the deaths of two children. Surgeries for those under 18 ...

“I don’t have tonsils, adenoids or an appendix,” he ... “He should be at home with his kids and his husband, not stuck on the road. I worry that he won’t finish this tour.” ...