VANCOUVER, British Columbia and BOSTON, Jan. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: XENE), a neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering ...

What if a gas used in anesthesia became a weapon against Alzheimer's disease? A recent study reveals that xenon, a noble gas, ...

The Master of Science in Anesthesia program is limited to approximately 27 to 34 students per location per year who progress through the program as a cohort. This small size ensures that students ...

Xenon is one of the six noble gases. Its name derives from the Greek word for “strange”. In medicine, it has been used as an anaesthetic since the early 1950s and, more recently, to treat brain ...

While the usual methods for treatment include focussing on amyloid plaque and tau tangles (targeting the protein called tau in the brain), new researcher has shown that using Xenon gas, a popular ...

In new research released this week, scientists have found evidence in mice that xenon gas might be able to help treat the neurodegenerative condition. Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...

Anaesthesia is one of the most significant innovations in modern medicine. It allows patients to undergo surgery and other medical procedures without experiencing the trauma of pain. According to ...

Xenon is regularly used as an anesthesia agent. But it could also someday become an Alzheimer's treatment. © Kobus Louw via Getty The next Alzheimer’s treatment ...

The effects of a shortage of anesthesiologists could be improved if specially trained nurses were allowed to provide anesthesia care — something they do in the United States, nursing advocates say.

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...

Researchers continue to search for effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, which affects increasing numbers of people every year. Most Alzheimer’s ...