(WHTM) — I recently underwent a procedure requiring me to have local anesthesia placed in the area where the doctor was working. I felt nothing and it was wonderful not worrying about pain while the ...

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 ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

Anesthetics were the drugs that intrigued me the most during my pharmacology classes in pharmacy school. One reason may have been their longevity: we learned that anesthetics were used in ancient ...

(A) Schematic diagram of the experimental system that detects calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum by each ryanodine receptor. (B) Isoflurane selectively activates RyR1 (mean ± standard ...

Seven epilepsy patients lay unconscious on operating tables at Baylor College of Medicine, their brains exposed for surgery, ...