Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) has expanded its applications over the past decade from common hand ...

Click here to read the Cover Story, “WALANT enables surgeons ‘to do more with less’.”The patient experience has always been at the heart of surgical practice.

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready ...

A single application of a common anesthetic procedure could be the answer to alleviating anxiety, depression and psychological pain in those suffering from chronic, extreme post-traumatic stress ...