“If you are willing and able to regularly increase your activity levels and protein intake for a few weeks before surgery, you are likely to experience a noticeably shorter recovery time after surgery ...

Research on the effects of cannabis on surgery, anesthesia, and surgical recovery lags behind its use. For this reason, most surgeons recommend avoiding it before surgery and sometimes after.

The count had averaged 135,000 during the three weeks before nitrous oxide inhalation. The gases inhaled consisted of nitrous oxide, 30 to 40 per cent, oxygen, 20 to 30 per cent, and nitrogen ...

In this study, 261 people (average age 61) having bypass surgery were formally tested to measure their cognitive capacity (i.e. mental ability) at four different times: before surgery, at six weeks, ...

Christopher Wanczycki loved to ski and work up a sweat outdoors before his advanced cancer diagnosis. Such exercise may have actually helped shorten his recovery after surgery, according to the ...

Before deciding on surgery, a doctor will consider how much pain a person is in, how much it affects their day-to-day activities, and how long they have been experiencing the pain. Trigger finger ...

he made multiple turns before stopping after a half-mile, according to court records. Officers then saw multiple canisters of nitrous oxide — 107 of them — that they said were “ice cold ...

While you will want to check-in with your surgeon first, patients are often instructed not to eat or drink anything after midnight on the eve of their surgery. In addition, you may be restricted to a ...