Topic: Epilepsy
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-11-26 17:31:53
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who smoke may have a higher risk of developing seizures than non-smokers do, a new study suggests.</p><p>Researchers found that among more than 100,000 U.S. women in a long-running health study, current smokers were between two and three times more likely ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2009-11-20 16:37:59
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An epilepsy sufferer has courted controversy in Britain by creating a public performance in which she will attempt to bring on a seizure and allow the audience to film it on their mobile phones.</p><p>Rita Marcalo, who suffers around two seizures a year even on ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-10-14 19:37:23
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - A common gene that can cause abnormal heart rhythms can also trigger epileptic seizures in the brain and may explain the sudden, unexplained deaths that often occur in people with epilepsy, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.</p><p>Testing epileptics for a mutation in this gene could ...
Las Vegas Sun | 2009-10-06 16:02:23
<div id="subtitle">This is Chris Stones' story. His life has been defined by epilepsy. A Las Vegas doctor has given him hope of living seizure-free.</div><div><p> Chris Stones accelerated his Mazda from a stoplight, faded to the right, bounced off a curb and sideswiped a car in the center ...
