While some are happy to grow old gracefully, others are willing to try anything to slow down the ageing process. A study, by a team at the University of Leeds, found that tickling the ear with a small ...

A device that ‘tickles’ a nerve in the ears could help patients recover from a stroke. The gadget works by transmitting mild electric currents through the skin, via clips fixed to both ears. This ...

Tickling your ears with a pain-relieving Tens machine can improve heart health, a study has shown. Applying electrical stimulation to the tragus - the small triangular flap at the front of the ear - ...

A Missouri woman was left traumatised when a tickle she felt in her ear turned out to be a spider. Desirae Kelly, 29, woke up in the early hours of the morning after feeling a ticker in her ear. She ...

Running from the abdomen up to the brain, it is perhaps not a surprise that the vagus nerve finds itself at the center of all kinds of medical research. Scientists have previously shown that ...

Did you think that an act as simple as tickling your ear can slow your rate of ageing? Yes, you read it right. According to a new research published in the journal Ageing, tickling your ear with a ...

Desirae Kelly, 29, couldn't sleep for hours after she felt a tickle in her ear. Luckily she took herself to urgent care, but the events that followed have left her ...

Researchers at the University of Leeds, Britain, say that the ear could be the key to one’s heart, for stimulating the nerves in the ear could distract nervous signals that are overexerting a heart in ...