Having a general anaesthetic in later life could raise the risk of developing dementia by a third, warn researchers. Brain changes caused by the anaesthetic could lead to Alzheimer’s within a few ...

Anaesthesia means 'insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations', but how does it work and what are the ...

The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

Despite decades of common use for surgeries of all kinds, the precise mechanism through which general anesthesia works on the body remains a mystery. New research investigated the common anesthetic ...

The Patient Navigator is a column that answers reader questions on how to navigate our health-care system. Send your questions to patient@globeandmail.com. This particular reader was slated to undergo ...

The sheer thrill of general anaesthetic is you’re conked out, right? You’re dead to the world while the best of the medical business tinker with your body like they’re playing Operation and you’re the ...

Physicians have described preclinical studies of a new general anesthetic -- a chemically altered version of an exiting drug -- that does not cause the sudden drop in blood pressure seen with most ...

Accidental awareness (when a patient becomes conscious during a general anaesthetic) is an incredibly important issue to both patients and anaesthetists (The long read, 9 February). Patients ...