Health officials have issued an urgent warning over a daily medication taken by tens of thousands of patients with epilepsy. UK medicines watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory ...
A teenage boy with epilepsy who has become the first child in the UK to have a device fitted into his brain has seen a huge reduction in life-threatening seizures. Oran Knowlson, now 13, had a ...
Tayybah suffers from idiopathic epilepsy, which means her seizures are unpredictable ... It's estimated that 10% of people in the UK have the condition, which can lead to neurones in the brain being ...
The study's future goal is for the neurotransmitter to prevent seizures in real time, enhancing proactive seizure management. Epilepsy is an incurable neurological illness that affects more than 50 ...
Epileptic children in the UK are suffering without cannabis medicines due to bureaucratic deadlock within the nation’s health service, their families and campaigners say. In a review published August ...
Oran, who had been having severe epileptic seizures for eight years and often needed resuscitation, was the first child in the UK to have this device implanted at Great Ormond Street Hospital in ...
Vulnerable patients with epilepsy and learning disabilities have been left at an "increased risk" of premature death because of the sudden closure of a specialist service in west Wales four years ago, ...
Affecting around one in 100 people in the UK, this complicated neurological condition is more than an aversion to flashing lights. To mark National Epilepsy Week this year, Anna Roberts - a ...
A high-tech mattress that can flip epilepsy patients from their front on to their side as they sleep could reduce deaths from night-time seizures. More than 600 people a year in the UK die as a result ...
Drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Flynn broke competition law by charging Britain's National Health Service (NHS) "unfairly high" prices for an epilepsy medicine, a regulator said on Thursday after ...