An Australian register set up to help pregnant women with epilepsy has helped dramatically reduce the number of stillbirths and birth defects such as spina bifida, and the resulting costs to the community, a new Monash University reveals. The paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Neurology, analyzed the economic benefits to the community of the Australian Pregnancy Register, which […]
Purple Day®, celebrated annually on March 26th is the largest grassroots effort dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy worldwide. It was created in 2008, by then nine-year-old Cassidy Megan. Motivated by her own struggles with epilepsy, she wanted to get people talking about the condition to dispel myths and inform those with seizures that they […]
Pet Ricky Gervais saved owner Carrie after she stopped breathing in her sleep numerous times by meowing loudly to wake her. He now rests in an urn alongside Karl Pilkington and Homer Simpson A grief-stricken mother and daughter are remembering their heroic cat named Ricky Gervais, who saved his owner’s life one final time in […]
Disney star Cameron Boyce, who was called “sunshine in shoes,” passed away unexpectedly in 2019, and his parents want to prevent this from happening to anyone else. The 20-year-old actor who played Jessie and Descendants on the Disney Channel passed away in his sleep from a type of epileptic seizure called SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death […]
Lanarkshire Epilepsy is a charity supporting those with epilepsy across North and South Lanarkshire, Scotland Help us to raise the funds to keep operating and continue supporting 500 people every year across North and South Lanarkshire! Last year you all did an amazing job, helping us, along with extra funding from the National Emergencies Trust, […]
Castlegar’s Kelly Hall, a member of the Robson Fire Department, is about to set out on an epic journey to gather stories of people with epilepsy and to raise funds for a couple of epilepsy-related charities. What are you going to be doing? I’m going to be biking from California to Florida, from Big Sur […]
