A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

Find 5 ways to prepare for sending your child to school for the first time. With planning, children with epilepsy can have a successful school year.

Psychiatric conditions often co-occur with epilepsy and need simultaneous management. Emergency care for seizures typically starts with benzodiazepines per 2024 ACEP guidelines.

Channing Seideman, 30, of Ohio was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child. She still has daily epileptic seizures, but her service dog, Bishop, helps keep her safe. Fox News Digital spoke with her.

Experiencing one or two seizures is not a guarantee of epilepsy but could indicate something is going wrong. It is encouraged to tell a doctor when and what type of seizure occurred.

Patients' number of days without seizures also increased, from 11 a month before to 15 a month after working with a seizure dog. "These findings show that seizure dogs can help people with ...

Typically, seizures last 30 seconds to two minutes. If a person experiences multiple seizures in less than 24 hours, they can be medically recognized as having epilepsy. Canada detailed that when ...

National Epilepsy Month is observed every November. It's time to be more vocal about this disease and to erase the stigma surrounding it. My experience with my daughter taught me that.

Kennady Schneider, now 19 and a senior at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, has a particularly difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy that has caused multiple seizures a day since she was 5.

Seizures tend to get progressively worse over time in people with epilepsy, and a new study in mice suggests why that might be the case. Seizures appear to prompt the brains of mice to produce ...

Hall’s son was out on a diet that consisted of 80% fat, consuming around 800 calories a day. The toddler was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy after his first birthday. Courtesy of Susan ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases affecting the nervous system and implies a predisposition to seizures. Per best estimates from CDC and WHO, there are 3.4 million people living with ...