PHILADELPHIA — Childhood ear infections may not just put hearing at risk. Kids who get them may develop a strong affinity for fatty foods and could be predisposed to obesity, surveys now suggest.

A series of new studies presented this month by taste and hearing experts suggests that repeated infections may damage a vital taste-sensing nerve in kids, perking a preference for rich foods and ...

OCULOSYMPATHETIC paralysis is a paralysis caused by damage to the sympathetic nerve fibers that innervate the smooth muscles of eye and orbit; it manifests itself clinically by a slight droop of the ...