Michigan leaders are working to ban all sales of whippets in hopes of curbing the recreational use of nitrous oxide. Whippets are the small canisters of nitrous oxide found inside whipped cream ...

Laughing gas is inactivating vitamin B12 in young people, leaving them paralyzed, experts have said. Vitamin B12 maintains the lining of nerves — if it doesn't work, people get nerve damage. Those ...

Recreational use of nitrous oxide — often referred to as whippets or laughing gas — left a 23-year-old with frostbite in his mouth and throat, according to a report of the man’s case published ...

Young people are using nitrous oxide to get high at alarming rates, with colorful new ways to purchase the product, according to health experts, despite recent laws in Michigan aimed at preventing ...

The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, which is typically administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative. But ...