Medical procedures used to be a scream-filled endurance test until doctors at this Boston institution learned to tame the ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Birkbeck, University of London, have identified a site where a commonly used anesthetic binds to sodium ion channels, revealing a molecular mechanism that may ...

Researchers are trying to figure out the mechanisms behind anesthesia. In doing so, they hope to develop better drugs used in the process. Share on Pinterest People undergo anesthesia all the time ...

Researchers have recorded direct evidence that the human hippocampus continues to process spoken words, grammar, and meaning ...

The state of sedation, analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis is called general anesthesia. In other words, general anesthesia is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. This ...

Doctors may use general anesthesia during delivery if regional anesthesia is not a suitable option. Doctors typically reserve general anesthesia for surgical deliveries, such as cesarean deliveries.

One day in the nineteen-eighties, a woman went to the hospital for cancer surgery. The procedure was a success, and all of the cancer was removed. In the weeks afterward, though, she felt that ...

ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs ...

Private equity’s decade-long consolidation of anesthesiology has produced two documented outcomes: higher prices for payers and worse working conditions for physicians, according to a June 2026 white ...

A Ming Dynasty Tomb—and a Startling Find In 1974, archaeologists in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, Eastern China, unearthed some ...

David Leachman, MD, FACHE, FASA, MBA, and CEO of Anesthesia at Sound Physicians, will present on the business side of anesthesia at the North Carolina Healthcare Association (NCHA) Summer Meeting July ...