Parents of Late Disney Star Cameron Boyce Are on a Mission to End Epilepsy
Described as “sunshine in shoes,” Disney star Cameron Boyce’s life came to a sudden end in 2019 and his parents want to make sure it does not happen to anyone else.…
Atkins Diet Along With Medication May Help Reduce Epilepsy Seizures
Medication, electrical implants, and brain surgery are among the interventions that can limit dangerous and sometimes deadly epileptic seizures. However, experts say there is a fourth method that is both non-invasive…
Traumatic brain injury, stroke, and epilepsy; A mediation study in a Danish nationwide cohort
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke are well-known causes of acquired epilepsy. TBI is also a risk factor for stroke, and injury-induced stroke may indirectly convey a proportion of the…
Creating an Epilepsy Treatment and Seizure Action Plan
An action plan can help a person who has epilepsy and other people around them know what to do in case a seizure happens. Everyone who is diagnosed with epilepsy would benefit from an action…
Managing Epilepsy Means More than Managing Seizures
Seeing purple in November always makes Elizabeth Spika Augustine smile. Purple is the awareness color for epilepsy and November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Put the two together, and it…
New WHO brief sets out actions needed to improve lives of people with epilepsy
A new technical brief published today by the World Health Organization (WHO), Improving the Lives of People with Epilepsy, sets out the actions required to deliver an integrated approach to epilepsy…
Jazz Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Demonstrating Advancements in Epilepsy Outcomes at the 2022 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced that six company-sponsored Epidiolex® (cannabidiol) oral solution presentations, including three late-breaking abstracts, will be shared at the upcoming 2022 American Epilepsy Society (AES) annual meeting, which will…
Inside Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields’ journey with epilepsy
Justin Fields regained consciousness in the back of the ambulance with no recollection of what had happened. All he remembered from that morning in ninth grade was feeling “a little bit…
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The latest options for treating epilepsy
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast,…
US Regional Differences Found in Presurgical Testing for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
The location and characteristics of an epilepsy center in the United States could affect the types of presurgical testing given to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, according to study findings published in Epilepsia. This…