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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While all epilepsy drugs carry a warning about an increased risk of suicidal behavior, it may only be certain newer medications that are connected to the hazard, a study published Monday suggests. In a study of 44,300 UK patients who used epilepsy drugs between 1990 and 2005, researchers found an increased risk of suicide, attempted ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Childhood vaccines may trigger early onset of a severe form of infant epilepsy, but researchers say the disorder is ultimately caused by defective genes and lifesaving vaccines should not be withheld from these children. The researchers said they feared the study published in the Lancet medical journal would scare parents away from getting their children vaccinated but ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Johnson and Johnson <JNJ.N> subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $81 million to resolve allegations of illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Topamax, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. It said one unit, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical LLC, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $6.14 million criminal fine for ...
Two subsidiaries of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay more than $81 million stemming from allegedly illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Topamax for psychiatric uses, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Federal drug regulators approved Topamax as an anti-epileptic drug and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A brain implant made partly of silk can melt onto the surface of the brain, providing an "intimate" connection for recording signals, researchers reported on Sunday. Tests of their device showed the thin, flexible electrodes recorded signals from a cat's brain more accurately than thicker, stiff devices. Such devices might help people with epilepsy, spinal cord injuries ...
A gene mutation in the brain can trigger irregular heart beat and sudden death in people with epilepsy, according to a study released Tuesday. The research published in The Journal of Neuroscience offers clues as to why people with epilepsy who are otherwise healthy are more than 10 times more likely than the general population to die suddenly and unexpectedly ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A large-scale comparative test of three anti-epilepsy drugs found the oldest was best for treating childhood absence epilepsy, in which youngsters often stare into space for up to 20 seconds many times a day. Ethosuximide, available since the 1950s, offered the best protection for the condition. Lamotrigine fared the worst, the researchers reported in the New England Journal ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An epilepsy sufferer has courted controversy in Britain by creating a public performance in which she will attempt to bring on a seizure and allow the audience to film it on their mobile phones. Rita Marcalo, who suffers around two seizures a year even on medication, has stopped taking treatment ahead of next month's production of ...
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed. According to the report, when a company-funded study's primary finding wasn't favorable, that result was usually buried and something else positive was highlighted ...
Chris Stones accelerated his Mazda from a stoplight, faded to the right, bounced off a curb and sideswiped a car in the center lane, causing it to bump into another vehicle. And he didnt know it. When ...
