Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals—pain—but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor from ...

By Exec Edge Editorial Staff Few medical specialties have transformed as quietly — or as profoundly — as anesthesiology over ...

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging the long-held assumption that general anesthesia works by simply switching the brain off. Instead, multiple independent studies now point to a ...

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