Women who don’t need an epidural during childbirth might be carriers of a rare genetic variant that gives them a much higher threshold for pain, scientists have discovered. Only about one in 100 women ...

A shortage of epidural kits in the UK is expected to last until at least March, officials have warned. Healthcare providers ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are less willing than whites to have an epidural to ease pain following surgery, a new study suggests. This could mean poorer pain relief in the short ...

Contrary to what had previously been reported, epidural analgesia, used to relieve women's pain during labor, does not appear to increase a woman's chances of having a Cesarean section, according to ...

Epidural pain relief during labour is not associated with long term backache, find researchers in this week's BMJ. An original study involved 369 women: 184 were randomised to receive an epidural and ...

Epidural anesthesia may do more than relieve pain during labor; in some women it may decrease the likelihood of postpartum depression, suggests a preliminary study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® ...

The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP),the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) the American College of Obstetricians and ...

ROSELAND, N.J., April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Milestone Scientific Inc. (MLSS) (NYSE:MLSS), a leading developer of computerized drug delivery instruments that provide painless and precise ...

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