IN THIS MORNING’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, YOU MAY HAVE HAD YOUR TONSILS REMOVED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, BUT WHEN IS IT TIME FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO GET THEIRS OUT? MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. DR. EMILY WISNIEWSKI SAYS ...

In the United States, surgeons perform over 500,000 tonsillectomies each year, including more than 530,000 in children and adolescents to improve breathing while sleeping or reduce recurrent infection ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some kids pack on extra weight when their tonsils are removed, U.S. researchers conclude in a review of earlier studies. The possibility that the surgery -- performed on ...

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- A young girl from Oakland is brain dead after going into surgery to have her tonsils removed. Now her family is demanding answers. Jahi McMath, 13, and her mother Nailah Winkfield ...

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (WTMJ) - An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy is relearning how to walk and talk after waking up from a coma following complications from what was supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy. Liam ...

A family in Nyeri is seeking justice after their son, Melvin Ndung’u, suffered burns during surgery. The hospital allegedly ...

NEW BERLIN, Wisconsin (WTMJ) — A New Berlin boy went to the hospital for a routine tonsillectomy and ended up in a coma. “He’s having to learn to eat again, to speak, to walk, to talk,” said his ...

A Canadian hospital is pausing scheduled tonsil and adenoid surgery for patients under 18 after two children who underwent the procedure died just after being discharged, officials said last week.

Your tonsils are oval-shaped pads of tissue in the back of your throat, one on each side. They work as part of your body's immune system to filter bacteria and viruses. Tonsils also make white blood ...