Your tonsils are oval-shaped pads of tissue in the back of your throat, one on each side. They work as part of your body's immune system to filter bacteria and viruses. Tonsils also make white blood ...

Doctors used to snip out tonsils right & left. They thought that the tonsils did no good, that large tonsils were always infected, that infected tonsils could cause all manner of serious diseases, so ...

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Dear Doctors: I have been told that I have tonsil stones. What are they, and how do you get them? Do you know if this is a common condition? Are there any natural remedies? Dear Reader: Tonsils are ...

Removing tonsils (tonsillectomy) used to be the commonest operation for children before the 1960s, so many parents of today may well have had their tonsils out when they were children. Doctors are ...

Dear Doctors: I have been told that I have tonsil stones. What are they, and how do you get them? Do you know if this is a common condition? Are there any natural remedies? Dear Reader: Tonsils are ...