Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Natalie Grover (Reuters Health) - Briefly applying an ice cube to the skin could diminish the pain associated with local ...

Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

For the first time, a study indicates that the use of local anesthetic may affect tooth cell growth and the development of children's teeth. The study comes at a time when more children than ever ...

Is local infiltration of an abdominal wound with an anesthetic as effective as epidural anesthesia for the control of postoperative pain? The authors of this article combined the results of 9 ...

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...

Patients with traumatic injuries who are treated in the emergency room are susceptible to opioid-related adverse drug effects. Increased use of regional anesthesia can be helpful in the effort to ...

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --There's a new trend in plastic surgery. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, a development has led to a nearly pain-free tummy tuck. Stacy Falk described the pain she felt after ...

An impressive new study, led by scientists from the Boston Children's Hospital, has developed a novel method to tame one of the world's most potent toxins, tetrodotoxin, commonly found in the ...

Between two types of local anesthetics, there are 132 in short supply and 13 available, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Twenty bupivacaine injections from Pfizer are ...