The question of anesthesia's impact on brain development has nagged the field for decades, with negative preclinical and animal model data but little conclusive evidence in humans. Young children ...

Bladder Botox injections are typically done under local anesthetic, though you also have the option to undergo the procedure with a general anesthetic. Botox injections are a relatively common ...

Pharmaceutical company Avenacy has launched Propofol injectable emulsion, USP, in the U.S. to be used for intravenous general anesthetic and sedation. The drug has been approved by the FDA as a ...

The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

New research supports earlier findings that indicate that anesthesia is no more hazardous for the brain at higher doses than at lower doses. General anesthesia makes it possible for millions of ...

General anesthesia makes it possible for millions of patients each year to undergo lifesaving surgeries while unconscious and free of pain. But the 176-year-old medical staple uses powerful drugs that ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in ...