The first seizure clinic model enabled rapid diagnosis and treatment for children with epilepsy, according to data presented ...
A long-running debate over Tamiflu’s safety in children may finally be settled. Researchers found that influenza, not the ...
The doctors were out of ideas to help 5-year-old Charlotte Figi. Suffering from a rare genetic disorder, she had as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, used a wheelchair, went into repeated cardiac ...
When she was 3 years old, Alana "Lani" Silverberg was eating a cookie when she started turning blue. Her mom, Sara, thought her daughter was choking and called 911. Lani was taken to Johns Hopkins ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Alyssa Howes was 4, she lost her sight and started having seizures -- up to 20 a day. For years, her grandmother stayed in the girl's room at night, watching for an attack.
A common parasitic infection, neurocysticercosis, is increasingly causing seizures in children, often mistaken for other ...
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Dravet Syndrome is a rare and severe form of epilepsy. Treatment options are limited and a local family is working to help change that. The family is hosting an event later this ...
The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...