Researchers found that over a 21-year period from 1990 through 2010, an estimated 263,000 children younger than 18 years of age were treated in US hospital emergency departments for cotton tip ...

While cotton tip applicators can be used for household cleaning, crafts and applying cosmetics, they are unfortunately also causing injuries to children. A study conducted by Nationwide Children's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The advice from doctors is clear: Don’t use ...

People regularly use Q-tips to clean out their ears, despite the product’s packaging specifically warning against the practice. Now, a scary new study reveals why the little cotton swabs aren’t great ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) --The advice from doctors is clear: Don't use cotton swabs to clean your ears. But people continue to use a soft-tipped plastic or paper stick to dig out the wax from their ear ...

Nearly three dozen children in the United States are sent to hospital emergency departments daily because of injuries caused by using cotton-tipped swabs for cleaning their ears. The highest rate of ...

May 8 (UPI) --Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital found during a two-decade-long study that cotton swabs were responsible for sending 263,000 children to the emergency room. That translates ...

Unsedated transnasal esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional sedated EGD in a number of clinical settings. The success of this technique depends upon ...

New research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital shows that around 12,500 kids are treated in US hospital emergency departments each year for injuries caused by cotton tip applicators. That’s about 34 ...

While cotton tip applicators can be used for household cleaning, crafts and applying cosmetics, they are unfortunately also causing injuries to children. A study conducted by Nationwide Children's ...

The advice from doctors is clear: Don’t use cotton swabs to clean your ears. But people continue to use a soft-tipped plastic or paper stick to dig out the wax from their ear canals — and it’s a ...