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Taking Topiramate in pregnancy ups oral cleft risk in babies
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 28 (ANI): Taking a high dose of the drug Topiramate during the first trimester of pregnancy may increase risk of cleft lip or cleft palate in newborns by three times, warns a study.
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Chronic disease risk increases in kids of rheumatoid arthritis moms
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): Pregnant women, take note! If you are suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, your kid is at increased risk for developing certain chronic diseases during childhood and adolescence.
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Google honours Indian chemist Asima Chatterjee on 100th birthday
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 22 (ANI): Google Doodle, today, celebrates 100th birthday of Asima Chatterjee, a renowned Indian chemist, who was the first female Doctorate of Science in India from an Indian University.
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Epilepsy drugs may damage your kid's bones
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 22 (ANI): Beware! Young people, especially kids and teenagers, taking anti-epileptic drugs may experience elevated rates of bone fractures, finds a recent study.
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Anti-epilepsy drug to treat Alzheimer's disease?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): According to a recent study, the scientists have tested an anti-epileptic drug for its potential impact on the brain activity of patients with mild Alzheimer's disease.
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Gene find could lead to treatment for memory loss
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 1 (ANI): More than 100 genes linked to memory have been identified, paving the way for treatments for conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
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Study suggests stress a common seizure trigger in Epilepsy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 04 (ANI): Patients of Epilepsy, Beware! Too much stress can be really harmful for you.
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Having religious, spiritual encounters down to epilepsy?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 11 (ANI): A recent study may have uncovered a neurological relationship between religiosity, a disposition for spiritual experience and religious activity, and epilepsy.
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Marijuana helps epilepsy patients combat intolerable medication effects: S
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 11 (ANI): A study finds that people with uncontrolled epilepsy - neurological disorder - resort to cannabis products when antiepileptic drug side-effects are intolerable.
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Scientists find association between memory mechanisms, resistance to epile
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [US], Nov.26 (ANI): In a recent study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, the scientists expose a new biological mechanism that on one hand damages a very specific type of memory but at the same time provides resistance to epilepsy.
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Surgeons devise non-invasive, cost effective treatment for epilepsy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kochi [India], Nov. 16 (ANI): Neurosurgeons at a Kochi hospital has devised a non-invasive and cheap treatment for epilepsy, considered to be the first time in India. The treatment, which involves eliminating epileptic focus through radiofrequency has found to be completely successful in a p
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Epilepsy is treatable and treatment simpler with advanced technology, says
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kochi [India], Nov 5(ANI): With advancement in healthcare, epilepsy is eminently treatable now. Nearly 70% of patients who are initiated to the advanced treatment, as a result of latest technology, become free of seizures or epileptic fits within 1 to 2 years and in about half of them, the d
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