A blessing in disguise. Back in early October, Cody Johnson had to cancel the remaining 2025 shows on his Leather Deluxe Tour due to a burst eardrum. He had to have immediate surgery to repair it, and ...

A burst eardrum — like a stubbed toe — is a common injury. Although ruptures can cause pain and hearing loss, most will heal naturally. For those that don’t, however, the only option is specialist ...

A startup company in the Virginia Bio+Tech Park in Richmond has moved one step closer to realizing a new medical treatment for eardrum repairs. Tympanogen recently was awarded a $1.48 million Small ...

A Richmond startup company has received a Defense Department contract to test a gel patch for eardrum repair in field settings to treat military service members. Tympanogen was awarded nearly $250,000 ...

The singer had to cancel tour dates after blowing out his eardrum, and he says the hardest part hasn’t been the pain — it’s ...

DURHAM That can lead to a deformed ear drum and hearing loss, but now doctors at Duke are using a laser to repair the eardrum. Dick Ekstrand, a 67-year-old retired attorney, noticed something ...

It's the bane of rock stars, concertgoers, soldiers on the front lines and folks who insist on using cotton swabs: a ruptured eardrum. Painful and time-consuming, eardrum repairs often require surgery ...

In the weeks that followed the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, doctors saw a flood of patients with a common injury: a ruptured eardrum. Ruptured eardrums aren’t rare — patients with chronic ear ...