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Posts Tagged ‘anesthesia’

It’s Tough To Keep a Redhead Down

By Mary • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: Food & Health

photo credit: szleaResearchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, concluded that redheaded women may need up to 20 percent more anesthesia as compared to dark haired women. Their study examined the response of redheads to pain while under anesthesia compared with a control group of brunettes. Researchers speculate that the MC1R gene that creates pigment [...]