Science News. from research organizations. Cotton swabs prove problematic for ear health Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Henry Ford Health System Summary: ...

A woman's daily habit of cleaning her ears with cotton swabs led to a life-threatening infection in her skull, according to news reports. The 37-year-old woman, who is identified only as Jasmine ...

The message can't be simpler: Don't put cotton swabs in your ear canals. A new study, the first of its kind to look at a nationally representative sample, found that between 1990 and 2010, an ...

Still, some people feel the urge to use cotton swabs despite their risks, Dr. Hwa said. “If you’re using them to sop up a little moisture right around the opening of your ear, that’s ...

Science News. from research organizations. Is it your second cousin? Cotton swabs may tell you New Kyoto University DNA test advances forensic analyses Date: August 22, 2016 Source: ...

Dr. Charlton told Live Science that he believed the piece of cotton had been stuck inside for a while because of how and where it was located and it was to blame for the man’s years-long ...

An Australian woman says she developed a life-threatening infection that ate away parts of her skull after years of swabbing her ears with cotton. But how likely is that scenario—and how dangerous are ...

And, perhaps unsurprisingly, he was advised to never use cotton swabs in his ears again. "They can only cause problems," Charlton said, noting that cotton swabs have been linked to ear infections ...

The U.K. plans to ban plastic straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton swabs, Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday at a meeting of Commonwealth nations. "Plastic waste is one of the ...

The Medan-based Kimia Farma employees were allegedly washing and repacking cotton swabs for the tests while pocketing up to 1.8 billion rupiah (~$125,000), local police said.

Each of the study cats, in the comfort of its own home, was then presented with an array of test tubes containing the smelly cotton swabs from its owner, a stranger and a blank control.