Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott came to ...

You’ve likely been under anesthesia for different procedures, whether you were having a tooth removed or undergoing a major surgery. Everyone knows it puts you in a sleep-like state, but have you ever ...

Hailed as one of the most important medical advances, the discovery of general anesthetics – compounds which induce unconsciousness, prevent control of movement and block pain – helped transform ...

Anesthesia, long considered a blessing to patients and surgeons, has been a mystery for much of its 160-plus-year history in the operating room. No one could figure out how these drugs interact with ...

In a New York Times article, Emery Neal Brown, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, answered questions about how ...

More than 350 million surgeries are performed worldwide each year, some of which use general anesthesia. However, the reason why general anesthesia works has not been fully elucidated. A research team ...

Anesthesia plays a vital role in modern medicine, allowing patients to undergo surgery and medical procedures pain-free and with minimal discomfort. Anesthesia is a medical treatment that blocks the ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to ...

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 ...