Epilepsy Patients Say Seizures Under Control
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TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- While most people with epilepsy report that their anti-seizure medications work, many say the accompanying side effects limit them in their daily lives.
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NEW YORK  - Ten healthy female students at  a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of  seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month  period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an  example of mass hysteria.
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A gene that causes a rare but severe  form of epilepsy in people is also found in highly bred dogs,  which could lead to new ways to treat the condition, an  international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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Doctors say patients timid about having surgeries for fear of pain shouldn't put it off: A new focus on patient comfort and advances in pain management are making many procedures nearly pain-free.
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Patients with chronic brain diseases  such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy have an unusually high  rate of depression, too -- suggesting links between the  conditions, doctors said on Wednesday.
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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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Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors.
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Devices that monitor and correct abnormal heart beats could prevent thousands of epilepsy-related deaths, experts believe.
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U.S. health officials alerted doctors on Thursday that medicines used to treat epilepsy and psychiatric disorders may raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior.
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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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The last thing Chinonye Omeje remembers of that day was checking on a pot of stew from its precarious perch over a cooking fire. She lifted the top of the pot and, at that moment, suffered an epileptic seizure.
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NEW YORK  - 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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A gene that causes a rare but severe form of epilepsy in people is also found in highly bred dogs, which could lead to new ways to treat the condition, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Many oncologists who treat patients with brain tumors are prescribing anti-seizure medications too often while not using antidepressants and chemotherapy enough, researchers report.
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Patients with chronic brain diseases such as Parkinson&#39;s disease and epilepsy have an unusually high rate of depression, too -- suggesting links between the conditions, doctors said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - People who see colorful "auras"  in response to people or words may simply have a brain  condition, not psychic powers, according to a new research  report.
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Carrying two genes linked to epilepsy may actually make you less likely to have a seizure, say researchers.