Natural Remedies for Ear Aches. Before antibiotics, parents used home remedies to treat the pain of ear infections. Now, with current concern over antibiotic overuse, many of these remedies are again popular.1  Depending on regional cultures, parents may have pressed a warm water bottle or warm bag of salt against the ear.atural Remedies for Ear Aches. Before antibiotics, parents used home remedies to treat the pain of ear infections. Now, with current concern over antibiotic overuse, many of these remedies are again popular.
Eric Kandel, MD, a Nobel Prize laureate and professor of brain science at Columbia University, believes it's all about biology. All mental processes are brain processes, and therefore all disorders of mental functioning are biological diseases, he says. The brain is the organ of the mind.
Jon Weingart, MD, discusses whether having a brain tumor means a patient needs surgery. Dr Weingart is a neurosurgeon and professor of Neurological Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Surgery is one type of treatment for brain tumors. The most common types of surgery performed for brain tumors at the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center are: 1  Biopsy. 2  Craniotomy. 3  Extended bifrontal craniotomy.  4 Eyebrow craniotomy (supra-orbital craniotomy).  5 Keyhole craniotomy (retro-sigmoid craniotomy).