Ear wax, also known as cerumen, is a natural substance produced by glands in the ear canal. While it often goes unnoticed, the color and consistency of ear wax can provide important clues about your ...

Earwax — or cerumen, as it’s officially called — serves an important purpose. It helps keep your ear canal safe and protected. Earwax probably isn’t something that you spend a lot of time thinking ...

Using earbuds or cotton swabs to clean earwax can push the wax deeper, leading to infections, pain, and even hearing damage.

They are the last place you might think to look for clues about your health and wellbeing – but scientists have discovered our ears can tells us a lot about everything from the risk of heart disease ...

It turns out, you shouldn’t use a cotton swab to clean out your ears. Your ears are self-cleaning machines, with very little maintenance required. One of its best defenses? Earwax. People are putting ...

Ear wax, medically known as cerumen, serves as your body’s natural cleaning and protection system for the ears. While some odor is normal, understanding when that smell signals a problem can help ...

You've probably used cotton swabs to clean your ears. Here's why ENTs say you shouldn't. (Getty Images) "Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have ...

It turns out that people with Parkinson's have decidedly different ear wax to people without the disease. Christin Klose/dpa Researchers investigating Parkinson’s disease have made a curious discovery ...

Anyone who's accidentally tasted ear wax knows it has an awful, sour flavor. Otolaryngologist Dr. Seth Schwartz told INSIDER that ear wax tends to be acidic. We know acidic foods also taste sour, so ...

"Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have heard your grandmother say, but, for the most part, it’s true, says Dr. Bradley Kesser, an ear, nose and ...