Local anesthesia prevents pain during procedures by blocking nerves from transmitting pain signals to the brain. The effects of local anesthetic are short-lived, so healthcare teams primarily use ...

Local anesthetic drugs are injected near nerves to block the pain from the area supplied by the nerve. Your doctor uses nerve blocks for dental treatment and eye operations.

A local anesthetic is a drug that reversibly inhibits the propagation of signals along nerves. When it is used on specific nerve pathways, effects such as analgesia (loss of pain sensation) and ...

These involve blockage of voltage-gated sodium channel activity, which is known to have several prometastatic effects, 25-27 and a number of other antimetastatic effects of local anesthetic agents, ...

Extremes of age, pregnancy, renal disease, cardiac disease and hepatic dysfunction may increase risk of LAST1, 2. The minimum effective dose of local anesthetic should be used in these populations ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new molecule developed by University at Buffalo researchers acts like a local, long-lasting anesthetic, providing robust pain relief for up to three weeks, according to the results ...

The first and only extended-release dual acting local anesthetic (DALA), ZYNRELEF reduces postoperative pain from foot and ankle, small-to-medium open abdominal and lower extremity total joint ...

A study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug lidocaine exerts an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready availability, the drug could easily ...

She booked an appointment for later this week to take two moles out of my back with a local anesthetic. I did speak to her and told her I'm pregnant and she said it is safe. I'm still worried that it ...

Would there be a sort of local anesthetic on the market that one could apply (perhaps even spray) on a small area of the body that may need minor but painful treatment, like removing a large splinter ...