General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

A major finding by a doctor at the Harvard Medical School may revolutionize the administration of anesthetics to patients awaiting surgery. If current applications of the new discovery prove ...

A recent study published in PLoS ONE suggests that the brain may resist emerging from anesthesia, requiring more anesthetic for emergence from anesthesia than for submergence. According to the study, ...

Amid demands to remove Confederate statues across the country, cries have grown louder to dismantle monuments to J. Marion Sims, the "father of gynecology," a white 19th-century doctor who performed ...

Over a series of experiments, three adult PVG black hooded female rats weighing 240–250 g developed exophthalmos during anesthesia. We use the rats in studies of visual function, and our experiments ...