Early Surgery Can Cure Epilepsy in Children, Study Finds
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) — For the youngest epilepsy patients for whom medication doesn’t work, frontal lobe surgery can stop seizures — in many cases forever — a new study published this week in the Annals of Neurology finds.Doctors say th…
John Bryson: Did Seizures Lead to Car Accidents?
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Now that Secretary of Commerce John Bryson has taken medical leave after a seizure apparently caused him to hit two cars in California, medical experts are scratching their heads about how a seizure could have caus…
Epilepsy: ‘Miracle Diet’ Prevents Seizures; Scientists May Know Why
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While neurologists have known that a high-fat and very low-carb diet, known as a ketogenic diet, reduces seizures in epileptic patients who are resistant to medical therapy, the “why” to it all has always been…
New Surgery Offers Hope to Kids With Dangerous Giggling Seizures
Hemera Technologies/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — For the first time, in an experimental pilot program at Texas Children’s Hospital, doctors are using real time MRI-guided lasers to destroy lesions that cause laughing seizures in epilepsy patients.”This MRI-g…
Oklahoma Blind Dog Gets New Life with Canine Pal
Goodshoot/Thinkstock(TULSA, Okla.) — Putting two dogs of different breeds and from different backgrounds together in a confined space will usually end up in a lot of bark and likely some bite. Rarely does that pairing end up in the two pooches b…
EpiPen to Stop Epileptic Seizures?
Getty Images/Photo Researchers RM(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) — The longer an epileptic seizure lasts, the more likely it is to turn deadly.Besides administering an oral or anal gel suppository — which can be difficult to give successfully in the midst of a se…
Colorado Mom Can’t Remember Leaving Kids, Walking 12 Miles
Matthew Hatfield(DENVER) — A Colorado mom who does not remember leaving her two young sons in a van and disappearing for hours is being examined Monday by doctors for clues into what happened. Police arrested the 26-year-old woman for child abuse and …