Epilepsy news

CMC in Aspen hit with discrimination complaint
Aspen Times
Aspen resident Channing Seideman, who has epilepsy, claims that certain CMC faculty members inappropriately handled a seizure she had during class. According to the complaint, Seideman had a seizure during an EMT class on Sept. ...
College says it may force student with epilepsy to drop classes because it's ...The Republic

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Lundbeck Buys $16 Million Stake in Proximagen to Develop Drugs
BusinessWeek
29 (Bloomberg) -- H. Lundbeck A/S, Denmark's second- largest drugmaker, agreed to make a 10.3 million-pound ($16 million) investment in Proximagen Group plc as part of a strategic partnership agreement to develop drugs for epilepsy, ...
Lundbeck to make $16 mln investment in ProximagenReuters
Proximagen polishes its CNS rep with $16M Lundbeck dealFierceBiotech
Lundbeck, Proximagen sign dealPharmaceutical Business Review
Genetic Engineering News -4-traders (press release)
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Malahide student on top in epilepsy photo competition
Fingal Independent
A YOUNG Malahide student has clinched a top prize in a global epilepsy photography competition. 20-year old James Leahy, a who attends the Dublin Institute of Technology, has won 3rd prize in a content which aims to raise awareness of epilepsy. ...

ABC7Chicago.com
Epilepsy patient live tweets his own brain surgery
ABC7Chicago.com
A man in Milwaukee who has epilepsy was frustrated because his medication wasn't working and he was suffering from seizures. So he underwent brain surgery. The hospital's social media manager sat in the operating room, tweeting live during the entire ...
Special Assignment Local hospital tweets during brain surgeryNewsradio 620

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The University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute is now offering epilepsy clinics to pediatric patients in rural Nebraska via telemedicine.

Neb. medical center offers webcam epilepsy clinics
Houston Chronicle
All of Nebraska's pediatric neurologists and epilepsy specialists practice in Omaha. That means parents of children with epilepsy who live in rural Nebraska sometimes wait between four to six months for an appointment, and some have to travel up to 250 ...
Neb. medical center offers webcam epilepsy clinicsKCAU

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BBC News
Alton Woman with epilepsy still missing
Eagle Radio
Police are carrying out stop checks and handing out leaflets in the hunt for Leanne Turnball. The 34 year old was last seen at Sainsbury's before going to 1st Gear Cycles in the High Street. Officers will be conducting stop checks at three locations in ...
Missing woman police quiz publicBBC News
Stop checks will be used in hunt for Leanne TurnbullThis Is Hampshire.net

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San Francisco Chronicle
Did a scrappy little start-up just pown the FDA?
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Today they announced that they found from their early analysis – of the FDA's own data – that two epilepsy drugs may be more dangerous in pregnancy than their FDA labeling might suggest. They used the FDA's adverse event reporting data to compare the ...
Indication of Increased Birth Defect Risks in Two FDA-Approved Epilepsy ...MarketWatch (press release)

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The Guardian
Man in court over Nurofen contamination
Telegraph.co.uk
Neurontin, which is made by Pfizer in 100mg capsules, was developed to treat epilepsy but is more widely used for the general treatment of seizures. Neurofen Plus is a painkiller using codeine and ibuprofen which is only available over the counter. ...
Man accused of contaminating Nurofen tablets appears in courtMirror.co.uk
Man held over contaminated NurofenThe Press Association
Nurofen tampering: police make arrestThe Guardian
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Videogame developers in the UK are being urged to consider how their titles could potentially trigger photosensitive epilepsy among players.

Zinc has been found to play a critical role in regulating communication between cells in the brain, possibly governing the formation of memories and controlling the occurrence of epileptic seizures...

A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has succeeded in creating what amounts to a GPS system for locating and tracking a vital class of brain cells that until now has eluded comprehensive identification, particularly in living animals. The cells in question are the class of neurons that release the neurotransmitter called GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid)...

RUGBY league great Wally Lewis believes he could have been an even better player had it not been for his toughest opponent.

Epilepsy patients receiving additional treatment with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) have an approximately seven times lower risk of dying from a sudden unexpected death according to new research published online first in The Lancet Neurology. In comparison with the general population, sudden unexplained death is 20 times more common in people suffering from epilepsy...

Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a new technique to reach neurons through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and deliver drugs safely and noninvasively. Up until now, scientists have thought that long ultrasound pulses, which can inflict collateral damage, were required...

Researchers from Taiwan have confirmed a bidirectional relationship between schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study, published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reports that patients with epilepsy were nearly 8 times more likely to develop schizophrenia and those with schizophrenia were close to 6 times more likely to develop epilepsy...

TUESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People affected by epilepsy are nearly eight times more likely than those without it to develop schizophrenia, and those with schizophrenia are also six times more likely to have epilepsy than people who are not schizophrenic, a new study suggests.

OLYMPIANS, sporting legends, doctors and everyday heroes have joined forces to release landmark research into the country’s most common, chronic brain disorders.

Researchers from Taiwan have confirmed a bidirectional relation between schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study reports that patients with epilepsy were nearly eight times more likely to develop schizophrenia and those with schizophrenia were close to six times more likely to develop epilepsy.

New research shows people with epilepsy face an ongoing battle with 'medieval' discrimination from employers and the community.