WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is stepping into the issue of lethal injection executions for the first time since 2008 in an appeal filed by death row inmates in Oklahoma. The justices agreed Friday ...

01AFTC2Z – Illustration of a brain showing epileptic seizure activity, front view. Electroencephalogram (EEG) tracings show abnormal waveforms emanating from the temporal lobe (blue-green) ofthe brain ...

Adding fentanyl to midazolam for conscious sedation may improve dental operating conditions for patients, specifically those who could not be sedated with a single drug in the past, according to a ...

Dentists at the University of Colorado (CU) Denver School of Dental Medicine mistakenly injected as many as eight patients with potentially lethal doses of midazolam after the drug was erroneously ...

Findings showed MELT-300 was statistically superior to both sublingual midazolam and placebo for providing successful procedural sedation. Topline results were announced from a phase 3 trial ...

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This happened because midazolam boosts a brain chemical called GABA, which makes us feel calm and sleepy. But at night, the ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses common medications used in anesthesia and their effects. Following is a transcript: Feinstein: Anesthesiologists sometimes tell patients that they ...