{"id":244792,"date":"2026-10-02T05:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-develop-local-anesthetic-that-lasts-weeks-instead-of-hours"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:39:02","slug":"scientists-develop-local-anesthetic-that-lasts-weeks-instead-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-develop-local-anesthetic-that-lasts-weeks-instead-of-hours","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop Local Anesthetic That Lasts Weeks Instead of Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-local-anesthetic-that-lasts-weeks-instead-of-hours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The findings could help researchers make local anesthetics last longer in people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patients recovering from surgery may need pain relief beyond the eight to 12 hours, or about a day at most, that most local anesthetics provide.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking a longer-lasting option, researchers at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital have redesigned liposomes, microscopic carriers made from fatty molecules, to release a numbing drug more gradually. In rats, the formulation sustained local anesthesia for two to three weeks, compared with about four to eight hours for a commercial formulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings could help researchers make local anesthetics last longer in people. Patients recovering from surgery may need pain relief beyond the eight to 12 hours, or about a day at most, that most local anesthetics provide. Seeking a longer-lasting option, researchers at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital have redesigned liposomes, microscopic carriers made from fatty molecules, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}