A new study from Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia warns that patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of heart attacks, ...

Patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of myocardial infarction, according to a new study in Anesthesia & Analgesia (February ...

Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is emerging from the dental chair and operating room as one of the most intriguing new tools for tackling severe depression. A growing body of research ...

Before giving birth, I was terrified of labor. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely convinced that the baby was going to come out the way my medical providers said she was. After doing some homework, ...

Researchers tested a more direct measure of anesthetic activity to increase accuracy of the model brain uptake, according to a study in the September issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. Previous modeling ...

Newly reported results of a small phase 2 clinical trial indicate the potential utility of using nitrous oxide treatments in patients with severe major depression that has not responded to other forms ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...

Clinical depression leads to substantial disability, and it can be a fatal disease. Although many people with this disorder respond well to standard treatments, a significant number of patients do not ...