Epilepsy

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First seizure may fuel thinking trouble in kids

Reuters US Online Report Health News 180 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are intellectually normal may have problems with language, memory, learning and other thinking or "cognitive" skills at or around the time they experience a first epileptic seizure, according to new research out in the medical ...

Seizures during pregnancy up premature baby risk

Reuters US Online Report Health News 182 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of giving birth to a premature or small infant is increased among women who have seizures while pregnant compared with the general population, researchers in Taiwan report. Less than one percent of women have seizure ...

Potassium cuts kidney stones in kids on "K" diet

Reuters US Online Report Health News 187 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children on the high-fat ketogenic, or "K diet" to control epileptic seizures can prevent the painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they start ...

Tool helps avoid seizure-inducing content on Web

AP News 187 days ago

Software tool helps Web developers avoid content that causes seizures in susceptible viewers Wisconsin researchers have released a free software tool that could help Web surfers susceptible to certain seizures. An estimated one in 4,000 people has photosensitive epilepsy and could suffer ...

Epilepsy - Canine Dancing Fever

ezinearticles.com 270 days ago

Epilepsy - Canine Dancing Fever By Alex De La Cruz As you read more and more of the articles on this website regarding dog disease, you'll begin to notice that many of the ailments experienced by man can be experienced by canines. ...

What You Need to Know About Dog Seizures

ezinearticles.com 271 days ago

What You Need to Know About Dog Seizures By Cristian Stan Just like human beings, the pets also experience seizures. Some of the things that happen during a seizure are: drooling, teeth chomping, excessive salivation and uncontrolled urination. Sometimes, the dog paddles ...

FDA notes new suicide language on epilepsy drugs

AP Features 279 days ago

The Food and Drug Administration has alerted physicians to new warnings on anti-seizure drugs about heightened risks of suicidal tendencies, following an earlier announcement that the labels would be required. The labeling applies to more than 20 medications used to control seizures, ...

Who Has Epilepsy?

ezinearticles.com 280 days ago

Who Has Epilepsy? By Jose Perez Although epilepsy can start at any point during a person's life, most epilepsy is diagnosed in childhood, and most of all in the first year of life - around 140 out of every 100,000 babies under ...

Canine Epilepsy - Implications For You and Your Pet Dog

ezinearticles.com 282 days ago

Canine Epilepsy - Implications For You and Your Pet Dog By Karen Corey Epilepsy in a dog is not that uncommon. However, it is not the only thing that will cause seizures or episodes. Several other conditions can make your pet convulse, ...

The Effects of Diseases, Drugs, and Chemicals on the Creativity and Productivity of Famous Sculptors, Classic Painters, Classic Music Composers, and Authors

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 285 days ago

The phrase "the inhumanity of medicine" has been used by Sir David Weatherall, Oxford's Regius Professor of Medicine, for a kind of sickness in modern technological medicine.1 In 1919, one of his predecessors, Sir William Osier, had the remedy for that complaint. ...

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