The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. Here's what you need to know: 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent ...

Having a general anaesthetic in later life could raise the risk of developing dementia by a third, warn researchers. Brain changes caused by the anaesthetic could lead to Alzheimer’s within a few ...

The Patient Navigator is a column that answers reader questions on how to navigate our health-care system. Send your questions to [email protected]. This particular reader was slated to undergo ...

As soon as he set eyes on his wife following surgery to mend a broken hip, Tony Hewitt-Miles could tell there was something different about her. 'Rita looked at me vaguely - as if she couldn't quite ...

Despite decades of common use for surgeries of all kinds, the precise mechanism through which general anesthesia works on the body remains a mystery. New research investigated the common anesthetic ...

Anaesthesia means 'insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations', but how does it work and what are the ...

Physicians have described preclinical studies of a new general anesthetic -- a chemically altered version of an exiting drug -- that does not cause the sudden drop in blood pressure seen with most ...

General anaesthetics are defined by their capacity to produce a state in which surgery can be tolerated without the need for further drugs. They are widely used in both clinical medicine and ...

Women who undergo general anaesthetic when having a caesarean are far more likely to go on to suffer postnatal depression, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, a study has found. The report, conducted by ...

The sheer thrill of general anaesthetic is you’re conked out, right? You’re dead to the world while the best of the medical business tinker with your body like they’re playing Operation and you’re the ...