Cryoablation in most cases only requires local anesthetic and can be completed within an hour.

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has commended the vital role of primary care elective services in reducing waiting lists for gynaecology outpatients, vasectomy and minor surgeries during a visit to ...

The results offer “objective evidence that patients with EDS [Ehlers-Danlos syndrome] do experience a shorter duration of local anesthetic effect when using lidocaine, confirming the common anecdotal ...

The global local anesthesia drugs market size stood at USD 4.18 billion in 2024 and is anticipated to increase from USD 4.34 billion in 2025 to reach approximately USD 6.07 billion by 2034, witnessing ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals — pain — but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...

Low-dose dexamethasone mixed with local anesthetic was found to be the optimal injectate for use in interlaminar epidural steroid injections for the management of lumbar radiculopathy. Interlaminar ...

Epidural glucocorticoid injection is an intervention commonly used for managing lumbosacral radicular pain. The goal of the injection is to administer glucocorticoids to the epidural space to reduce ...

An epidural is an injection in your back, near the nerves that carry pain signals from the lower half of your body. It is a popular method of pain relief during childbirth. There isn't a universal ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated recommendations for doctors offering birth control to their patients, including a new plea for doctors to give women more options of ...