Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young woman pointing at digital image of brain There is a strange kind of trust involved in going under general anesthesia. One ...

A healthy patient going under anesthesia now faces a risk of anesthesia-related death roughly 20 times lower than someone only a generation ago.

If you have ever had surgery, you’ve likely been given anesthetic. But what does it actually do to your body? Anesthetic is a type of medication that prevents you from feeling any pain during a ...