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You just had facial plastic surgery and you’re happy with the results. Your wrinkles are gone, your nose has been reshaped, and you want to show yourself off to the world. Your first thought might be to put on some makeup to cover up the incisions or highlight your new look, but doing so in the first few weeks is unsafe.

Tinnitus, a chronic hearing condition, is often thought of as a physical health issue. However, not as many people know that ringing in the ears has been tied to declining mental health, too. October is Audiology Awareness Month, and is a good time to draw attention to what can be a very serious concern.

We’ve all known at least one person with freckles in our lives, with those tiny, darker dots covering their otherwise fair-skinned faces and arms. Not as common, however, are freckles on your eyes. Are they a sign of something serious?

Being a singer can mean a lot of late nights and early mornings of performances and practicing. But if you are not getting enough sleep, you could make yourself susceptible to voice injury or impede healing a vocal injury.

Vaping has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years. Electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes” are battery operated devices that heat a nicotine-laced liquid (in addition to a number of chemical additives – glycol, glycerin and usually some type of flavoring) into a vapor so that it may be inhaled like a cigarette, and “vaping” is the act of inhaling the flavored nicotine fog. Vaping has been marketed as a healthy alternative to smoking because it does not contain tobacco, but are e-cigarettes and vaping really harmless?

You wake up one morning with a sharp pain in your ear. You make a doctor’s appointment for that afternoon, but your ear still hurts. You go on the Internet and read about a lot of different ear treatments. But are any of them safe?