What we are, we are! Fear not, gentle reader, we are only thus beginning to give you a brief account of The Anaesthetic Revelation, a privately printed pamphlet which its author has sent us. What we ...

Injections to the voice box and biopsies are among four operations now possible under local anaesthetic A hospital is pioneering new ways of doing some ear, nose and throat (ENT) procedures under ...

When it comes to 'pain', I am a total weakling. A stoic I am not — not even one little bit. However, I am very happy that pain will warn me of potential dangers, such as a bee sting when near a hive, ...

Ketamine hydrochloride is an anaesthetic that causes people to feel disconnected from their bodies. At low doses, they remain conscious and can talk but do not feel pain. At higher doses, ketamine is ...

Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

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 ...

Giving patients a dose of anaesthetic could help them to recover from past trauma or even cure phobias, a new study has suggested. If people are asked to recall painful memories shortly before being ...

A type of anaesthetic machine that has been used in NHS hospitals can be hacked and controlled from afar if left accessible on a hospital computer network, a cyber-security company says. A successful ...