Topic: Epilepsy
LONDON (Reuters) - Almost half of epilepsy patients who have surgery find that it stops their seizures completely for at least 10 years, scientists said on Friday, suggesting an effective alternative to costly and difficult drug treatment.In the first long-term study of ...
Nearly too weak to cry, Masteha Jama Mohamed's three-month-old daughter is barely the length of her forearm, as the severely malnourished baby struggles for survival in famine-hit Somalia.Mohamed is herself just a teenager: the 16-year-old mother says her baby has been sick ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Lundbeck will continue to sell a drug used in U.S. executions since pulling it off the market would be bad for some patients with severe epilepsy, its CEO said on Wednesday.The company has found itself at the ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Vice President Joseph Biden on Tuesday tapped into his own medical history to lead a big fundraiser for researching a cure for epilepsy, which he called "a terrible lightning storm in the brain."Biden and former White House colleague David ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly three of five children with newly diagnosed epilepsy do not take their antiepileptic medications as prescribed over the first six months of therapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.Children from the poorest families in the study were least likely ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Knut, the celebrity orphan polar bear who drew thousands of visitors to Berlin zoo, died after an epileptic fit, according to neurologists quoted by Focus magazine.A CAT scan had revealed abormalities in the brain of the bear, who may ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults on certain epilepsy drugs have an increased risk of breaking their wrist, hip or spine, according to a new Canadian study.The drugs have been suspected of weakening bones for years, researchers say, but whether individual ...
Parents prompt epilepsy study, gain 10,000 followers less than a year after son's tragic deathEpilepsy takes as many as 50,000 lives each year — grim statistics Mike and Mariann Stanton hadn't heard of until their 4-year-old son, Danny, became one of them.Somehow, ...
Pharmaceutical company Elan agrees to pay more than $203 million to settle case with govtIrish pharmaceutical manufacturer Elan Corporation PLC and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to pay more than $203 million for alleged illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Zonegran, the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve an experimental epilepsy drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, the companies said on Wednesday, marking another delay for the anti-seizure medicine.The drugmakers received a so-called complete response letter ...
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