Massachusetts drug producer Ameridose is recalling many of its products due to concerns over sterility. The company is part of the same family of drug producers as New England Compounding Center, whose contaminated steroid medications have been responsible for a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis....

A new report in the British Medical Journal investigates the incidence of postoperative respiratory complications after use of general anesthesia. Patients who received intermediate acting neuromuscular blocking agents during surgery were compared with patients who did not receive such agents. Research...

Research conducted over the last decade has shown that immature animals suffer from apoptotic neurodegeneration and long-term cognitive deficiencies when exposed to anesthesia. A new study published in Pediatrics looked to see whether there was an association between anesthesia exposure in children...