The commonest operation performed on Australian children can safely be delayed to see whether the child really needs it, according to a study just published in the United States. The operation is the ...

Norman Swan: Welcome to the program. This morning on the Health Report we'll try to clear up confusion about a contract to a wing of the Catholic Church in relation to abortion counselling that got a ...

Glitches in our evolutionary development mean that 80% of four-year-olds get glue ear, a temporary loss of hearing. Many have costly and unnecessary surgery despite there being excellent non-surgical ...

Each year, more than 500,000 ear tube surgeries are performed on children, making it the most common childhood surgery performed with anesthesia, according to the American Academy of ...