GARDEN GROVE – Nicole Chavez desperately called about 20 dentists before she found one willing to see her young son, who chipped a front tooth. Chavez said many felt ill-equipped to treat her ...

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 ...

Imagine being a child being prepped for surgery, surrounded by scalpels and strangers wearing masks, hats and gloves. An anesthesia mask hovers over your face in a brightly lit operating room. Sounds ...

Children's brains are more affected by an inhaled anesthetic than an intravenous anesthetic with increased levels of brain lactate, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Stony Brook ...

Exposure to anesthesia during an appendectomy in children does not uniquely increase the risk for subsequent neurobehavioral diagnoses compared with medical admissions without anesthesia. Researchers ...

Repeated exposure to general anesthesia did not negatively affect neurobehavioral outcomes among children with cystic fibrosis, the randomized phase IV CF-GAIN trial showed. The mean composite score ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to anesthesia during cesarean section delivery (C-section) doesn't increase a child's risk of learning disabilities down the road, according to a new report in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A miniature horse is getting a lot of attention on social media for helping kids wake up from anesthesia at Shriners for Children ...

Children with cancer could be spared dozens of doses of general anesthesia by projecting a video directly on to the inside of a radiotherapy machine during treatment, according to new research.