Here’s a horror story for anyone who had their tonsils taken out when they were young. A CNN article published this week details a woman whose tonsils grew back decades later—necessitating a second ...

Ear Nose and Throat specialist Mbira Gikonyo. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili, Standard) The hospital visits became numerous, tiresome and expensive. The sore throat, runny nose, bad breath, swollen tonsils ...

GREENWOOD, S.C. -- The family of a 7-year-old girl from South Carolina is devastated after her heart stopped while she was having her tonsils removed. Paisley Cogsdill, 7, died Feb. 21 during a ...

An 11-year-old boy from Wisconsin ended up in a medically induced coma after undergoing routine tonsil surgery, his family have said. On March 17, Liam Klaver had an operation to remove his tonsils, ...

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 ...

Removing children's tonsils is not nearly as common in the United States as it was a few decades ago, as more doctors have concluded that the surgery's ability to reduce the frequency of throat ...

Liam was removed from a ventilator on March 31 and is "making great improvements every day" despite having a long road to recovery ahead of him, according to a GoFundMe set up to help the family An 11 ...