Childhood Ear Infections
Otitis media has become the commonest pediatric diagnosis made by physicians who care for children in the United States, [note 1] with an annual budget topping $2 billion in 1982, [note 2] and no relief in sight. After decades of punishing warfare against the nasopharyngeal bacteria, several medical journal articles have recently begun to question the safety and effective-ness of antibiotics and tympanostomy and the wisdom of continuing the purely military strategy based on them. ...  

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