| Epilepsy News From Medical News Today |
Evidence-Based Care For Childhood Epilepsy Follows Comparative Effectiveness Trial The first comprehensive comparative effectiveness clinical trial of three widely used anti-seizure drugs for childhood absence epilepsy - the most common form of epilepsy in kids - has established an evidence-based approach for initial drug therapy... |
Study Suggests Drop In Hormone Therapy Contributed To Breast Cancer Decline, Newsweek Opinion Piece Says While breast cancer continues to be the second most common cancer among women in the U.S., "rates have been declining by about 2% a year since 1999, after having increased for the previous 20 years," Newsweek contributing editor Barbara Kantrowitz and Washington correspondent Pat Wingert write in a opinion piece... |
Evidence-Based Treatment For Childhood Epilepsy The first comprehensive comparative effectiveness clinical trial of three widely used anti-seizure drugs for childhood absence epilepsy the most common form of epilepsy in kids has established an evidence-based approach for initial drug therapy... |
Mayo Clinic Designated Top Epilepsy Treatment Center Mayo Clinic has been designated a comprehensive epilepsy treatment center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC). Only the top epilepsy programs - those that can provide the most complex and advanced care - are selected for this designation, according to the association... |
Lacosamide Validated As Promising Therapy For Uncontrolled Partial-Onset Seizures A recent multi-center study has confirmed earlier study results that 400 mg/day of lacosamide provides a good balance of efficacy and tolerability for patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures (POS), and doses of 600mg/day may provide additional benefit for some patients. Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute, St... |
Neural Mechanism May Underlie An Enhanced Memory For The Unexpected The human brain excels at using past experiences to make predictions about the future. However, the world around us is constantly changing, and new events often violate our logical expectations. "We know these unexpected events are more likely to be remembered than predictable events, but the underlying neural mechanisms for these effects remain unclear," says lead researcher, Dr... |
Health Minister Calls For Regional Epilepsy Champions In Health Trusts Health minister Ann Keen MP has today called for primary care trusts and strategic health authorities to "identify an epilepsy champion who can drive a local review of epilepsy services and put in place an implementation plan to commission world-class epilepsy services"... |
Scientists Discover Clues To Human Diseases By Studying Dolphins In A Changing Ocean A panel of governmental, academic and non-profit scientists speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled research suggesting that diseases found in dolphins are similar to human diseases and can provide clues into how human health might be affected by exposure to contaminated coastal water or seafood... |
High-Fat Ketogenic Diet To Control Seizures Is Safe Over Long Term Current and former patients treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet to control multiple, daily and severe seizures can be reassured by the news that not only is the diet effective, but it also appears to have no long-lasting side effects, say scientists at Johns Hopkins Children's Center... |
First Aid For Seizures Portrayed Inaccurately On Popular TV Dramas New research from Canada shows that almost half of the time, doctors and nurses on popular TV medical dramas respond inappropriately to seizures, suggesting that watching TV is not the best way to learn what to do if you are present when someone has a seizure... |
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