General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

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Anesthesia during a short surgery doesn’t harm a baby’s brain development, according to an experiment involving hundreds of infants in seven countries. While the study can’t answer broader safety ...