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Long-lasting nerve block could change pain management

Long-lasting nerve block could change pain management

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a slow-release anesthetic drug-delivery system that could potentially revolutionize treatment of pain during and after surgery, ...





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Physicians develop potentially safer general anesthetic

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians has developed a new general anesthetic that may be safer for critically ill patients. In the August issue of Anesthesiology, they describe preclinical studies of the ...


Finding of genetic region controlling cardiovascular sensitivity to anesthetic propofol

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have identified the genetic region in rats responsible for cardiovascular collapse during anesthesia. While it is well known that people have different cardiovascular ...


Researchers develop potentially safer general anesthetic

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a new general anesthetic that may be safer for critically ill patients. In the August issue of Anesthesiology, ...


Role of anesthetics in Alzheimer's disease: Molecular details revealed

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created Jan 25, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Inhaled anesthetics commonly used in surgery are more likely to cause the aggregation of Alzheimer's disease-related plaques in the brain than intravenous anesthetics say University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers ...


Nerve-block anesthesia can improve surgical recovery, even outcomes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When planning for surgery, patients too often don't consider the kind of anesthesia they will receive. In fact, the choice of anesthesia can improve recovery, even outcomes.


Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.


Ketamine reduces suicidality in depressed patients

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Drug treatment options for depression can take weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge, which is clearly inadequate for those at immediate risk of suicide. However, intravenous (IV) ketamine, a drug previously used as ...


An often overlooked protein actually a potent regulator of cardiac hypertrophy

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A protein long thought to be a secondary regulator in the heart's response to stressors like hypertension actually appears to be a primary regulator according to researchers from the Center for Translational Medicine at Thomas ...


Study of isolated snakes could help shed light on venom composition

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While studying a way to more safely and effectively collect snake venom, University of Florida researchers have noticed the venom delivered by an isolated population of Florida cottonmouth snakes may be changing in response ...


Vardenafil: A potential drug to protect gastric mucosa

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Indomethacin has been proved by epidemiological and experimental studies to be closely associated with peptic ulcer development. Vardenafil is a potent phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor and its effects on the gastric mucosa havenot ...



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