Seizures News

THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Parents of young children with epilepsy often sleep in the same room or the same bed as their child to monitor their condition, but the bed-sharing may be interfering with restful sleep for both the parents and...

MONDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Measles vaccines don't increase the risk of febrile seizures in children ages 4 to 6, according to a new study. Febrile seizures are brief, fever-related convulsions that are not fatal and do not lead to brain d...

FRIDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women who'd like to become pregnant -- especially those who are taking medications for chronic conditions -- may need to add something to their to-do list: Plan, plan, plan. That's because some medications are k...

FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Babies whose mothers choose to deliver at home are at higher risk of complications after birth, including low Apgar scores and seizures, a new study finds. However, if the home birth was attended by a certified ...

TUESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery can significantly improve seizure control and quality of life among people with epilepsy, according to a study stretching over 26 years. "This study may be the longest follow-up of epilepsy surgery patie...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians need to take care when prescribing seizure medication to HIV/AIDS patients to prevent harmful interactions between drugs, experts warn. The cautionary note from the American Academy of Neurology (AA...

SUNDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children with epilepsy do not appear to face an increased risk for seizures while watching 3-D TV, a new German-Austrian study suggests. However, the results did reveal that about one in five of these children is...

SATURDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Seizures among women of childbearing age with epilepsy may worsen during menstruation or ovulation, researchers have found. In the study, investigators at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of ...

MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Onfi (clobazam) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an add-on treatment for severe seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in people 2 years and older, the agency said...

THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of the people who undergo surgery for epilepsy remain free of seizures 10 years later, a new study finds. Current practice is to treat patients with medication, and only when drugs can't control se...

TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Veterans who suffer emotion-related seizures that are not caused by epilepsy can go undiagnosed for much longer than civilians with the condition, according to a new study. This condition -- known as psychogeni...

MONDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Potiga (ezogabine) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat partial epileptic seizures in adults, the agency said Monday. Partial seizures are the most common seizure in peopl...

WEDNESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Many people with autism also have epilepsy that doesn't respond to treatment, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at the medical records of 127 children and adults aged 3 to 49 with autism who had had o...

MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Children made ill by the 2009 pandemic H1N1 swine flu virus suffered more seizures and other nervous system problems than those with seasonal flu, a new report reveals. In the study, published in the September ...

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- People with Alzheimer's disease appear to be at increased risk for seizures, researchers have found. In the study, researchers analyzed data from almost 15,000 Alzheimer's disease patients in the United Kingdom...

MONDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Toddlers who receive the combination MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella and varicella) vaccine are at higher risk of having a febrile seizure a week to 10 days after receiving the shot than children who get the MMR a...

MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- TV medical shows aren't the place to learn how to provide proper first aid for a person suffering a seizure, a new study says. Canadian researchers watched some popular medical dramas -- "House, M.D.," "Grey's A...

MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Taking antidepressants may not only help alleviate depression, but could make you more extraverted and less neurotic, new research suggests. Extraversion, which is associated with positive emotions, is believed t...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- An unusual look at internal documents from a pharmaceutical company suggests that clinical data was manipulated to make a popular anti-seizure drug, gabapentin (Neurontin), look more effective than it actuall...

FRIDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Mutations in a sodium channel gene are associated with fever-induced seizures and a severe form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome in children 6 months and younger, a new study has found. American and Dutch res...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Children recently diagnosed with epilepsy should have their language, memory, learning and other cognitive skills tested because they're at increased risk for problems, say U.S. researchers. The recommendatio...

MONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Epileptic seizures during pregnancy increase the likelihood of premature and small babies, says a new study. Taiwanese researchers compared children born to 1,016 women with epilepsy with those born to 8,128 wom...

MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- A drug commonly used to prevent rejection in organ transplant patients may be effective against childhood epilepsy, animal studies suggest. The drug, rapamycin (also known as sirolimus), appears to block seizure...

MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Despite recent concerns about fetal malformations linked to the anti-seizure medication valproate, most women with epilepsy can expect to have a relatively uneventful pregnancy with careful planning and prepara...