Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. Kate McGovern, a nurse educator and midwife at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., demonstrates the equipment that delivers ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Mothers delivering at Mercy Hospital Springfield now have a new option for managing pain during labor: nitrous oxide. Mercy recently began offering the new pain management method in ...

For some young people, a popular method for getting a quick high is by misusing laughing gas — and lately, that’s in the form of nitrous oxide from products sold by the company Galaxy Gas. Those ...

Michigan had a five-fold increase in nitrous oxide-related poisonings and deaths in recent years, prompting a warning from local health officials. While the gas can be used safely as a general ...

A new can of nitrous oxide has become a popular inhalant Galaxy Gas Teenagers are inhaling canisters of nitrous oxide sold under the brand name Galaxy Gas The brightly colored canisters are used to ...

Alabama lawmakers are considering a bill to restrict sales and use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, a product linked to at least five deaths in Shelby County last year. The gas canisters are ...

Despite a recent Food and Drug Administration warning against inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, deaths due to misusing the substance are rising in the United States. Despite a ...

A growing number of young people are misusing nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or whippets, to get high, and a Maryland health expert warns that the consequences can be deadly. A study ...