Topic: Epilepsy
Federal health advisers have ruled that GlaxoSmithKline's epilepsy drug Potiga effectively controls seizures. An agency spokeswoman said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration's panel of neurologists voted unanimously that company studies showed the effectiveness of the drug. The panelists noted side effects, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Justice Department says 2 subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson agree to pay more than $81 millionTwo 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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