Affecting the outer ear, swimmers ear (also called acute otitis externa) is a painful condition resulting from inflammation, irritation, or infection. These symptoms often occur after water gets trapped in your ear, with subsequent spread of bacteria or fungal organisms.
Amazon Launches Silk Web Browser for Tablets. Amazon has unveiled Silk, a brand new web browser that lives both on the tablet and in the cloud. The browser, which will be available on the Amazon Fire tablet, dramatically cuts down on load times and request times by splitting the workload between the tablet and Amazon's EC2. This infusion of cloud computing is the secret sauce that makes the Silk browser load pages quickly.
CORN SILK Overview Information. The long shiny fibers at the top of an ear of corn are called corn silk. Corn silk is used as a medicine. Corn silk is used for bladder infections, inflammation of the urinary system, inflammation of the prostate, kidney stones, and bedwetting.It is also used to treat congestive heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, fatigue, and high cholesterol levels.ore evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of corn silk for these uses. 1  Bedwetting. 2  Bladder infections. 3  Inflammation of the prostate. 4  Inflammation of the urinary system. 5  Kidney stones. 6  Congestive heart failure. 7  Diabetes. 8  Fatigue. 9  High blood pressure.