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, ...

Dental hygienists in New York now can administer local infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide to patients while assisting dentists with all dental procedures, thanks to a bill that was recently ...

Patient-administered nitrous oxide (N 2 O) delivery systems are quickly becoming a sought-after service for clinicians in various medical fields, from dentists to med spas. Nitrous oxide has effects ...

Last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a dental hygiene bill that allows dental hygienists to use nitrous oxide and local infiltration anesthesia to assist dentists with all dental ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. Kate McGovern, a nurse educator and midwife at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., demonstrates the equipment that delivers ...

An old dog — nitrous oxide — can learn new tricks, managing pain in men undergoing transrectal biopsies, researchers reported at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Urological Association. "At ...

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 ...