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 ...

Removing a kid’s tonsils can help them sleep better at night Kids with mild sleep-disordered breathing were less likely to see a doctor or take meds after their tonsillectomy The surgery is already ...

Mason keeps his mom on the run -- but it wasn't always that way. Mason was diagnosed with failure to thrive. Kids with the disorder can't take in enough calories needed for weight gain and growth. At ...

Having older siblings and childhood tonsil removal are linked to a heightened risk of ankylosing spondylitis, a type of chronic inflammatory arthritis, finds a large study published in the open access ...

There was a time when pediatricians routinely recommended tonsil removal, even for healthy children — including me. As far as I can tell, I suffered no ill effects — plus, I got extra ice cream! That ...

In the United States, surgeons perform over 500,000 tonsillectomies each year, including more than 530,000 in children and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have their tonsils removed using an "intracapsular" technique -- which removes at least 90 percent of tonsil tissue, but spares the tonsil capsule -- seem to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with sleep-disordered breathing had lower health care use after tonsil removal. Those who had surgery ...

(CNN) — In the summer of 1983, Katy Golden’s mom had stocked their kitchen in the suburbs of Detroit with Popsicles and bubble gum. Golden was 5 years old and about to have her tonsils removed to help ...