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 ...

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 package that recently arrived at the startup company Tympanogen contained a precious cargo that had traveled a long, long distance. Inside were samples of the company’s polymer hydrogels, which had ...

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 human ear is an intricate mechanism full of delicate moving parts, which makes it a fiddly thing to fix if something goes wrong. Chronic middle ear disease can lead to infection, pain, hearing ...

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 ...

Country singer Cody Johnson shared that he has to cancel his performances for the rest of the year due to needing immediate surgery to repair a severe eardrum rupture.

The country music star said upper respiratory and sinus infections caused a burst eardrum that will require surgery.