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 ...

General anaesthetics are defined by their capacity to produce a state in which surgery can be tolerated without the need for further drugs. They are widely used in both clinical medicine and ...

Many anaesthetic determinants on these targets have been investigated, partly in the hope that they could be introduced as 'silent' mutations in animals to test the in vivo significance of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research has highlighted the value of recycling general anaesthetic used in routine operations.In the UK, healthcare accounts for more than five per cent of national greenhouse gas emissions, and ...

A new understanding of the complex ways in which general anaesthetics act on the brain could eventually lead to improved drugs for surgery. The research is published in Cell Reports. University of ...

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 ...

As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are putting you to sleep by binding mainly to a protein in the brain called the ɣ-aminobutyric ...

As soon as he set eyes on his wife following surgery to mend a broken hip, Tony Hewitt-Miles could tell there was something different about her. 'Rita looked at me vaguely - as if she couldn't quite ...

Women who undergo general anaesthetic when having a caesarean are far more likely to go on to suffer postnatal depression, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, a study has found. The report, conducted by ...