There's a good chance you're cleaning your ears wrong. Read on to learn how to clean your ears without risking your hearing.

Detectives struck investigative gold in late 2022 when a used Q-tip linked Bryan Kohberger to the heinous murders of four University of Idaho students. But it wasn’t the only evidence they had against ...

For years we’ve all been using Q-Tips to burrow down in our ears and give them a good cleaning. But as it turns out, we’re not supposed to be doing that. Using cotton swabs to clean your ears ...

Every Q-tips box has a warning label: “Do not insert swab into ear canal,” and if you’re going to use it to clean your ears, gently swab the outer part only.

"Q-tips aside, If someone develops new onset of a blocked feeling in the ear — like the feeling of water in the ear when you get out of the shower — most of the time it's harmless and it goes ...

Q-tips were originally invented in 1923 by Leo Gerstenzang, whose wife was wrapping cotton around a toothpick to clean the baby’s ears. I hear on the news that some people still use them for that.

Q-Tip performs at the opening event for the Kennedy Center’s inaugural hip-hop culture season. Last year, the A Tribe Called Quest rapper and producer was named the arts institution’s first ...

Introduced in the 1920s, the original Q-tips were merely wooden sticks with cotton wrapped around one end. Today, the improved two-sided version with its flexible paper applicator has become a ...

Q-tips never told us to stick the swabs in our ear canal to clear out earwax. But, from its beginning in the 1920s, it made ear care a key focus of its marketing strategy.