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

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

New research published in the journal Neuroscience provides evidence that nitrous oxide may be an effective treatment for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health ...

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 ...

Sinn Féin TD Mark Ward, who introduced the Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill, accused the Government of ...