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See post on LBDA Forum

http://community.lbda.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14 & t=3368

* regarding a press release is from Mass. General Hospital last week on

isoflurane. The inhaled anesthetic causes Alzheimer's-like changes in mammalian

brains. Researchers mention an anesthetic that may be safer -- desflurane.

* background article from the Boston Globe in 2007 about hospital-induced

delirium. Mass. General Hospital researchers drew attention to the anesthetic

isoflurane as part of the cause of delirium.

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