The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.
Dr. Lee Atkinson-McEvoy, MD, a pediatric ear specialist at UCSF, talked to KPIX's Dr. Kim Mulvihill about how the slimy substance or "bio film" forms and causes serious side effects such as hearing loss.
See video here.
