More than three million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one-third of people with epilepsy don't respond to medications used ...

Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely ...

Almost half of people with epilepsy who had surgery for the condition remained free of seizures 10 years later, according to a British study published Friday. Researchers from University College ...

SEATTLE -- For patients with drug-refractory epilepsy who are eligible for surgical treatment, their outcomes end up better than continuing on medical therapy in most cases, two new studies suggested.

Children with drug-resistant epilepsy who are Black or insured through Medicaid may be less likely than white and privately insured patients to receive surgical treatments that can end or minimize ...

Surgery can lead to successful outcomes for those with epileptic seizures. June 22, 2009 — -- Emma Kon, 25, made news in the United Kingdom after doctors performed multiple surgeries to remove ...

In the 58% of patients who became seizure-free in a randomized trial, [3] quality of life, employment status and school attendance improved. There were no deaths, although 1 patient in the control ...

The research is persuasive: When drugs don’t completely control epilepsy, surgery often can — and the sooner it’s tried, the better. Yet while children are going under the knife at younger ages, ...

A Scottish teenager with epilepsy underwent a groundbreaking surgery to remove a piece of his brain and is no longer having seizures for the first time in 13 years, according to his mother. Angus Bain ...

Infants with medically intractable epilepsy are more likely to have improvement in their developmental outcome following surgery if the surgery is performed earlier and for epileptic spasms During the ...

More than 3-million Americans are affected by epilepsy. In about 40-percent of epileptic cases, drugs are unsuccessful and surgery is an option. Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital have a new ...