Samantha Harney's son Trevor, 14, has epilepsy. He was having seizures at least every other day, and wasn't responding to medications. After a brain surgery, he's able to pursue his dream of becoming ...

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When you replace an older cell phone or TV with a new high-resolution device, the visuals can be strikingly different—all of ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In one of the largest epilepsy surgery studies ever conducted, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that 81 percent of patients with intractable epilepsy become totally or nearly ...

YORKTOWN, Va. - Red emergency lights flickering on the driveway became an all too familiar sight for the Van Cleave family. Having upwards of eight seizures a night, sometimes a trip to the emergency ...

A new study shows that anti-seizure surgery may have significant benefits for patients suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy – the most common type of the seizure-causing condition. A new study shows ...

Lisa Ratledge can still remember the sleepless nights fueled by the fear that her young son might have a seizure while she was asleep and die in his bed. She became tearful at the memory of her son, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with temporal lobe epilepsy experience stable or improved quality of life after successful surgery to control their seizures, even if they develop some degree of ...

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, ...

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