A Redding doctor is warning officials about the recreational misuse of nitrous oxide after seven people were hospitalized. Inhaling nitrous oxide can deplete vitamin B12, leading to severe health ...

CHARLOTTE — It’s called nitrous oxide. You may know it as laughing gas. Dentists use it for pain relief. Others use it for a quick high. You can buy it legally. Social media promotes it, and it’s ...

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, is widely used in the medical and food industries, most notably in whipped cream dispensers. But beyond its legal applications, the gas is increasingly ...

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is warning residents of a rise in emergency health incidents linked to the recreational use of nitrous oxide, better known ...

For decades, nitrous oxide, affectionately known as "laughing gas," occupied a relatively innocuous corner of public perception. It was the calming agent at the dentist's office, or perhaps a fleeting ...

NEW ORLEANS — A bill banning the retail sale of a propellant used in everything from rockets to cans of whipped cream has been scheduled for a debate on the Louisiana Senate floor. The law passed on ...

LANSING, Mich. — Emergency health incidents linked to recreational use of nitrous oxide have surged significantly in Michigan, with poison center calls increasing 533% from 2019 to 2024, according to ...

Low doses of nitrous oxide — commonly dubbed 'laughing gas' — could briefly relieve the symptoms of treatment-resistant depression, a new study has found. Researchers from the universities of ...

A Redding doctor is sounding alarms to city officials and health workers about recreational misuse of an old drug that put seven people in the hospital this autumn — five with spinal cord degenerated.