A new study from Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia warns that patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of heart attacks, ...

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Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is emerging from the dental chair and operating room as one of the most intriguing new tools for tackling severe depression. A growing body of research ...

Nitrous oxide has been used for nearly 200 years for anesthesia and pain relief. Dentists often administer "laughing gas" to people undergoing tooth extractions, root canals and other procedures, ...

Three years ago, Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC became the first hospital to fully discontinue using nitrous oxide in its operating room, and it has never looked back. Nitrous oxide, more ...

Denver Health is changing how its doctors administer nitrous oxide, a common anesthetic used to sedate people for surgeries, after realizing how much was being wasted. In the process, they're saving ...

YouTube has brought the world many gems, but none greater than the trend of filming people at their most vulnerable - under the influence of laughing gas - and sharing all the funny stories with the ...

More hospitals may offer nitrous oxide during labor and delivery, as nurse midwives push facilities to give women an intermediate option short of an epidural, according to an ABC News report. The ...

Clinical depression leads to substantial disability, and it can be a fatal disease. Although many people with this disorder respond well to standard treatments, a significant number of patients do not ...

Newly reported results of a small phase 2 clinical trial indicate the potential utility of using nitrous oxide treatments in patients with severe major depression that has not responded to other forms ...

Although many therapies and medications now exist for major depression, roughly one in three diagnosed patients still suffer from treatment-resistant depression—a form of the disorder that does not ...