Word: anesthesia
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...women take up to five drugs over the course of their pregnancy and labor. Yet only a dozen prescription drugs are approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during pregnancy, and they're all pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for example, or epidural anesthesia. Which means patients with many common conditions face an excruciating dilemma: decline medication whose effects on a fetus may be largely unknown or take it and worry about the consequences...
Katrina McCoy, a nurse in Cherry Hill, N.J., who is in the process of having a butterfly tattoo with her name above it removed from her arm, says she has even opted out of getting anesthesia during the painful laser sessions, because, "I feel like it is a punishment for doing something retarded." If Infinitink works as advertised, such prolonged penance may no longer be the price for a simple change of heart...
...main limitations to developments of these technologies previously was getting bad tissue reactions—nerve and muscle injuries,” said Daniel S. Kohane, one of the senior authors and an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. “The compounds we use tend to have little or no direct neurotoxic or muscle-toxic effects...
...severe version of this syndrome is rare - only 100 to 200 for every 100,000 women - but its consequences can include kidney failure and death. And then there are other side effects, such as bleeding, infection and death, which are associated with any surgery performed under general anesthesia. But fully 20% of the 80 donors interviewed said they didn't know there were any physical risks to egg donation...
...Read a TIME story on anesthesia...