31 May 2018

Injection may block chemotherapy pain for several weeks

It might be possible to relieve the persistent pain that can follow chemotherapy with a natural protein that blocks the...

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29 May 2018

Professor Ravi Mahajan elected next President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

Professor Ravi Mahajan from Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust has been elected President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in succession...

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24 May 2018

Discovery will impact design of drug delivery systems at the molecular level

Researchers at Houston Methodist and Rice University have made a discovery that will impact the design of not only drug...

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22 May 2018

Outcomes of first ever analysis of UK anaesthetic research grant activity

Recent data [1] published in the journal Anaesthesia, comprising the first systematic analysis of UK anaesthetic research grant activity by the National Institute...

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17 May 2018

RCoA undertakes largest ever study of anaphylaxis in anaesthesia and surgery

Published in the 6th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (NAP6) is the largest ever prospective study of anaphylaxis1 related to...

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10 May 2018

New approach for treating neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is the chronic, pathological pain that continues even when the cause of pain is removed. Causes include damage...

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8 May 2018

Children exposed to general anaesthestic have poorer development, literacy and numeracy scores

The new finding published in April in Pediatric Anesthesia, is based on a data-linkage study of over 210,000 children in New South Wales,...

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3 May 2018

Managing chronic pain with light

Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome have now identified a special population of nerve cells in the...

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