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

Police have issued a warning after officers found more than 50 laughing gas canisters in under an hour. Fifty-five canisters containing nitrous oxide were found on the Raffles estate in Carlisle, ...

Laughing gas canisters dumped in a Lake District beauty spot cost the National Trust hundreds of pounds to dispose of, a ...

Three people have been arrested after "large quantities" of suspected laughing gas were seized during an early morning raid, ...

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 ...

Photo of a young man with a laughing gas mask The FDA warns that misuse of nitrous oxide is causing serious injuries Flavored nitrous products are being sold in colorful packaging at gas stations and ...

Thinking about ways to handle labour pain without losing control? Laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, might be the option you’re ...

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, ...

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 ...

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