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Florida legislators must ensure patient Rx affordability | Opinion
My daughter and I are two of more than 220,000 Floridians living with epilepsy, and I’ve served as a resource to our local epilepsy community helping to wade through the red tape to ensure people receive the medicine they need to have the best quality of life. What...
Blood test could help diagnose epilepsy
A blood test could help identify epilepsy, according to new research from scientists at Lund University in Sweden. Matilda Ahl and colleagues published their research in Heliyon in March, in which they found that there are higher rates of a protein called IL-6 in the...
Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus Linked With Unknown Etiologies, High Mortality Rates
In a meta-analysis understanding the differences of super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE), findings showed that patients with SRSE had more often acute or unknown etiologies, and that established prognostic factors for first-time overall SE did not reliably...
Epilepsy
There are many forms of Epilepsy that affect the person in different ways. Ranging from frequent and violent to infrequent and mild, we will introduce you to the many varieties of this disorder.
Cannabis & Epilepsy
Epilepsy affects approximately 50 million people worldwide, causing frequent and unpredictable seizures that cannot be cured. While long-term drug therapy can help most patients control their seizures, about 30% of cases are resistant to standard treatments.
Shaken Baby Impact Syndrome
SBIS is the medical term used to describe the violent shaking of an infant/baby/child and the injury sustained by that brief moment of violence. This can result in serious brain injury, including seizures, mental retardation and blindness.