A New Orleans startup focused on healing holes in the eardrum without surgery has found early validation and funding from two business plan competition wins within the last week. Tympanogen has taken ...

Elaine Horn-Ranney holds a sample of a gel, Perf-Fix, which the company is testing for use in eardrum repair surgery.

It's the bane of rock stars, concertgoers, soldiers on the front lines and folks who insist on using cotton swabs: a ruptured eardrum. Painful and time-consuming, eardrum repairs often require surgery ...

Surgery and scars often go hand in hand. At least that's our understanding whenever we hear about surgery. However, medical advancements and progress in minimally invasive surgeries have now made it ...

A Richmond startup company has received a Defense Department contract to test a gel patch for eardrum repair in field settings to treat military service members. Tympanogen was awarded nearly $250,000 ...

You know that feeling when your phone battery hits 1% and you frantically search for a charger? Your eardrums are basically doing the same thing right now, except instead of a low battery warning, ...

A burst eardrum — like a stubbed toe — is a common injury. Although ruptures can cause pain and hearing loss, most will heal naturally. For those that don’t, however, the only option is specialist ...

The Clinical Centre of IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, commonly known as Sechenov University, has begun performing innovative eardrum repair procedures using tissue equivalents ...

Ladderworks is a publishing startup of diverse picture books with the mission to empower over a million kids to become social entrepreneurs. Our current series features interviews, by a character ...