An 11-year-old boy is recovering, learning to walk and talk again, after a ‘botched’ tonsillectomy (AFP via Getty Images) An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy is now regaining the strength to walk and talk ...

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- A young girl from Oakland is brain dead after going into surgery to have her tonsils removed. Now her family is demanding answers. Jahi McMath, 13, and her mother Nailah Winkfield ...

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (WTMJ) – An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy has spent over 50 days in the ICU after a tonsil surgery went wrong. Liam Klaver went in for a routine surgery to get his tonsils removed back in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have their tonsils removed using an "intracapsular" technique -- which removes at least 90 percent of tonsil tissue, but spares the tonsil capsule -- seem to ...

In the United States, surgeons perform over 500,000 tonsillectomies each year, including more than 530,000 in children and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bedwetters don't get drier nights by having their tonsils removed, according to a small study. Unlikely as it sounds, many doctors say the surgery, when used to help kids ...

To answer this question, one must understand the indications for tonsillectomy and risks associated with surgery. There are several indicators for tonsillectomy. Perhaps the most well-known reason is ...

The 6-year-old boy died at Starship children’s hospital days after undergoing routine tonsil surgery at a Southern Cross hospital. Photo / File A high-level review into the death of a child who ...

A high-level review into the death of a child who collapsed at home and stopped breathing after routine tonsil surgery has criticised the support health officials offered the boy’s grieving family but ...

IN THIS MORNING’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, YOU MAY HAVE HAD YOUR TONSILS REMOVED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, BUT WHEN IS IT TIME FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO GET THEIRS OUT? MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. DR. EMILY WISNIEWSKI SAYS ...