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 ...

General anesthesia is given during surgery to make people unconscious, eliminate pain during the procedure and prevent reflex movements. Many factors are known to impact how anesthesia affects a given ...

Anesthetics were the drugs that intrigued me the most during my pharmacology classes in pharmacy school. One reason may have been their longevity: we learned that anesthetics were used in ancient ...