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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating seizures during pregnancy is a delicate balance. Gyri Veiby, of Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, and colleagues compared the outcomes of more than 2800 deliveries by women with epilepsy to those of more than 369,000 deliveries ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that it is largely the drugs used to treat epilepsy and not the condition itself that increase the risk of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes. "Epilepsy is the most common maternal neurologic disorder requiring ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are intellectually normal may have problems with language, memory, learning and other thinking or " cognitive" skills at or around the time they experience a first epileptic seizure, according to new research out in the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children on the high-fat ketogenic, or " "We can confidently say this is a safe and powerful way to prevent kidney stones, and it should become part of standard therapy in all ketogenic dieters," senior investigator Dr. ...
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