Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging the long-held assumption that general anesthesia works by simply switching the brain off. Instead, multiple independent studies now point to a ...

I have a hand issue that's affecting my work. I’ve heard some hand surgeries can be done in the clinic without anesthesia or an operating room. Can ...