Also known as a tympanic membrane perforation, a ruptured eardrum develops when the tissue separating the ear canal from the middle ear is torn. Symptoms indicating a ruptured eardrum include ear ...

OSAKA--The pain of a ruptured eardrum can be excruciating, but researchers at a hospital here have developed a relatively swift fix that should be music to the ears. The team at Kitano Hospital ...

After that, he was taken to the hospital for CT scans to check for a skull fracture or internal bleeding of the brain. There, he received the diagnosis: a ruptured eardrum. "There's no timeline ...