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Study finds improved medication for treating epileptic seizures in childre
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Apr 21 (ANI): Researchers have recently found that prescribing two medications -benzodiazepines and phenytoin - one after the other, could help treat epileptic seizures in children.
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This electronic device could stop epileptic seizures
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Aug 30(ANI): An electronic device implanted directly into the brain can detect, stop and even prevent epileptic seizures, as demonstrated by researchers.
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Antiepileptic drugs could lead to birth defects
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 2 (ANI): A group of researchers have found that a common drug for treating epileptic seizures if used by pregnant women can lead to birth defects.
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A new weapon against epilepsy
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Apr 28 (ANI): A recent study has offered new hope for parents who have a child with a rare but serious form of epilepsy, epileptic encephalopathy (EE).
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Epileptic seizures maybe predictable with the help of brain patterns
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Jan. 09 (ANI): Seizures might not be random, but rather follow a cycle in the brain and a new research has found that cracking that pattern might help doctors to predict and treat epilepsy better.
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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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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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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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Here`s how leaky calcium puts epileptics at heart risk
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Aug 2 (ANI): Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) has long bedeviled doctors and now, a team of researchers may have found the cause of it.
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