Anesthesia in infancy tied to learning problems

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Infants who are given general anesthesia more than once are twice as likely to have learning disabilities later on than children never exposed to the drugs, a new study suggests.

The results add to mounting evidence -- from experiments in animals and observational studies in humans -- that anesthesia might injure young developing brains.