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    SK Biopharmaceuticals’ epilepsy glasses featured at CES 2023 tech trends to watch

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 13, 2023

    The CES 2023 tech trends session outlined how digital health technologies were transforming homes into a health hub and featured SK Biopharmaceuticals’ epilepsy wearables on Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nev.…

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    Parents of Late Disney Star Cameron Boyce Are on a Mission to End Epilepsy

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 12, 2023

    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.…

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    Atkins Diet Along With Medication May Help Reduce Epilepsy Seizures

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 11, 2023

    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…

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    Traumatic brain injury, stroke, and epilepsy; A mediation study in a Danish nationwide cohort

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 10, 2023

    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…

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    Creating an Epilepsy Treatment and Seizure Action Plan

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 6, 2023

    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…

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    Managing Epilepsy Means More than Managing Seizures

    NewsBy BJ IacinoJanuary 5, 2023

    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…

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    New WHO brief sets out actions needed to improve lives of people with epilepsy

    NewsBy BJ IacinoDecember 13, 2022

    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…

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    Jazz Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Demonstrating Advancements in Epilepsy Outcomes at the 2022 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting

    NewsBy BJ IacinoDecember 9, 2022

    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…

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    Inside Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields’ journey with epilepsy

    NewsBy BJ IacinoDecember 7, 2022

    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…

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    Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The latest options for treating epilepsy

    NewsBy BJ IacinoNovember 22, 2022

    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,…

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      • History
      • Stories of Hope
      • Request a Presentation
      • Board Applicant Form
    • About Epilepsy
      • Column 1
        • What is Epilepsy?
        • Seizure First Aid
        • Epilepsy Research
        • Prognosis
        • Treatment
        • HOBSCOTCH: Home Based Self-Management & Cognitive Training Changes Lives
      • Column 2
        • Epilepsy and Education
        • Epilepsy and Employment
        • Epilepsy and the Law
        • Epilepsy and Nutrition
        • Epilepsy and Tobacco Use
      • Column 3
        • Gender and Epilepsy
        • Mental Health Resources
        • Race, Ethnicity and Epilepsy
        • Stigma, Mental Health and Epilepsy
      • Column 4
        • Color, Light and Epilepsy
        • Famous People with Epilepsy
        • Driving with Epilepsy in Florida
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