Topic: Epilepsy
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-08-12 23:37:58
<div><p>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 journal Neurology.</p><p>"Our study highlights the importance ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-08-10 21:31:34
<div><p>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.</p><p>Less than one percent of women have seizure disorder, known as epilepsy, note Dr. Herng-Ching ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-08-06 20:15:17
<div><p>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 the diet, doctors have found.</p><p>"We can ...
AP News | 2009-08-06 07:21:11
<div id="subtitle">Software tool helps Web developers avoid content that causes seizures in susceptible viewers</div><div><p>Wisconsin researchers have released a free software tool that could help Web surfers susceptible to certain seizures.</p><p>An estimated one in 4,000 people has photosensitive epilepsy ...
