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Roughly 290,000 tonsillectomies are performed in children under 15 years old every year in the United States. Though the tonsil hospital closed decades ago, tonsillectomies still remain one of the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Ear Nose and Throat specialist Mbira Gikonyo. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili, Standard) The ...

Removing children's tonsils is not nearly as common in the United States as it was a few decades ago, as more doctors have concluded that the surgery's ability to reduce the frequency of throat ...

May 23, 2003 — Temperature-controlled radiofrequency (TCRF) is safe and effective for the reduction of symptomatic hypertrophied tonsils in children, according to the results of a prospective, ...

Removing tonsils modestly reduced throat infections in the short term in children with moderate obstructive sleep-disordered breathing or recurrent throat infections, according to a systematic review ...

Five-year-old Amber Milnes suffered a catastrophic haemorrhage and tragically died just days after developing an infection in the part of her throat where her tonsils had been removed ...