Imagine being a child being prepped for surgery, surrounded by scalpels and strangers wearing masks, hats and gloves. An anesthesia mask hovers over your face in a brightly lit operating room. Sounds ...

Babies and toddlers who went under anesthesia during surgery ended up having slightly worse scores on language and reasoning tests as 10-year-olds, in a new study. That doesn't prove the anesthesia is ...

(CBS) Anytime a young child goes in for surgery, parents have plenty of reasons to worry. But a new study adds another potential cause of concern: learning disabilities - from too much anesthesia. A ...

Before the advent of anesthesia, surgical procedures were almost universally horrific, so it's pretty hard to argue with the idea that anesthesia has vastly improved medicine. And yet, few surgeons ...

A worrisome new study caught my eye last week as I perused the website of the journal Pediatrics. It was titled “Cognition and Brain Structure Following Early Childhood Surgery With Anesthesia.” ...

According to the latest research very young children exposed to general anesthesia during surgical procedures may be at an increased risk for learning problems. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in ...

GARDEN GROVE – Nicole Chavez desperately called about 20 dentists before she found one willing to see her young son, who chipped a front tooth. Chavez said many felt ill-equipped to treat her ...

It’s not often that infants need multiple surgeries in the first two years of life, but for those who do, there may be long-terms risks associated with visits to the operating room, a new study finds.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — More and more children are going to ...

A miniature horse is getting a lot of attention on social media for helping kids wake up from anesthesia at Shriners for Children Medical Center — by playing a piano! TODAY’s Laura Jarrett shares the ...