Pacemakers Could Save Lives of Epilepsy Sufferers
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Implanting a pacemaker could save the lives of some patients with epilepsy who suffer dangerously irregular heart rhythms during seizures, researchers said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Over time, a significant   minority of patients being treated for epilepsy show signs of   tolerance to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), according to a   critical review of published studies. Tolerance is the   reduction in response to a drug after repeated administration.
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An experimental Procter & Gamble  antiarrhythmia drug significantly reduced the number of  episodes of dangerous heart rates in patients with implanted  defibrillators, and the need for uncomfortable shocks from the  devices in a late-stage clinical trial.
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NEW YORK  - Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve, which originates in the brain and then branches widely throughout the neck, chest and abdomen, seems to help some people with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.
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Urgent safety studies are needed for newer epilepsy drugs increasingly given to children, say UK researchers.
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Cardiac pacemakers could help reduce the high incidence of sudden death among those with epilepsy, a British study indicates. Four of 20 patients monitored for up to 22
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Heart cells grown from human embryonic stem cells have the potential to be biological pacemakers. Researchers at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel have demonstrated that when the embryonic
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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned in an alert to doctors Thursday.
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Electrical stimulation of areas deep within the brain could lead to improved memory, research suggests.
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Researchers say they have transformed embryonic stem cells into heart cells that could someday replace the electronic pacemakers now implanted to keep hearts beating normally.
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Cardiac pacemakers could help prevent unexpected epilepsy deaths in some sufferers, a new study suggests. The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, claims that devices to monitor and correct abnormal heart beats could save lives.
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Medicare has agreed to expand coverage by one-third for implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) -- devices used to steady hearts that beat irregularly -- to 500,000 patients, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
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In a world first, a London hospital fits a patient with a new type of pacemaker to stop regular fainting.
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Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death.
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Children with epilepsy have a moderately increased risk of dying early, but the cause of death is not usually related to seizures, investigators report. Rather, the increased risk appears to be more closely related to severe underlying conditions.
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"Natural" heart pacemakers made from human stem cells have been successfully tested in pigs.
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A tiny tent-like device implanted into the heart appears to block strokes caused by a common irregular heartbeat, sealing off a spot where dangerous blood clots form, German and U.S. researchers reported Wednesday...