Nitrous oxide, informally known as laughing gas, has shown rapid antidepressant effects in people with depression in a series ...

Most of the patients in the study improved after treatment, but none fully recovered, and all of them were left with some lasting neurological damage ...

Experts warn of rise in spinal cord damage from laughing gas - Nitrous oxide is often inhaled from balloons and abused by ...

The research, which is the second-largest European case study of nitrous oxide-induced SACD, was carried out in Beaumont Hospital by a dedicated team, including Dr Richard Bruen, radiology registrar, ...

MONDAY, Dec. 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Laughing gas might live up to its name for people struggling with depression, a major new study says. Treatment with nitrous oxide can provide rapid relief for ...

To anesthesiologists, laughing gas is no joke. Nitrous oxide was one of the first chemicals used to make surgery and tooth-pulling painless. Back in the 1840s, Horace Wells, a dentist in Hartford, ...

Possession of nitrous oxide in Arizona would be a felony punishable by 18 months in state prison under a bill from Rep. Julie ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nina Warken, German Minister of Health, gives a press conference on the German Cabinet's draft for a planned ban on the sale of ...

Laughing gas canisters dumped in a Lake District beauty spot cost the National Trust hundreds of pounds to dispose of, a ...