Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

DENVER -- For women undergoing endometrial biopsy using vaginoscopic hysteroscopy, intrauterine lidocaine significantly decreased pain during and after the procedure, a double-blinded randomized trial ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anaesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intrauterine lidocaine significantly reduced pain during and after hysteroscopy-guided biopsy compared with ...

There was a decrease noted in reports of death in the operating room, from 47% before 2010 to 15% after 2010 in a case analysis. HealthDay News — Local anesthetic poisoning reports decreased following ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...

Two new studies conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that poisonings from lidocaine have increased over the last 10 years, despite a general decline in poisonings and ...

A new treatment may be in sight for cancer patients, from an unlikely source. Lidocaine is a commonly used local anesthetic that works by blocking signals at the nerve endings in the skin. It is often ...

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 ...