Feb. 19, 2025 — New research focuses on diagnostic delays experienced by people with epilepsy, a neurological disorder characterized by unpredictable seizures that affects over 3 million people ...

New seizure and driving guidelines emphasize medical boards for licensing decisions and give physicians more flexibility and ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Epilepsy Society (AES) and the Epilepsy Foundation of America (EFA) ...

Jez Orbell has bought his first car at the age of 56 after being diagnosed with epileptic absense seizures at the age of 22.

Children with neonatal seizures had a 20.4% cumulative risk for epilepsy by age 22, whereas those without seizures had a risk of 1.15%, a new cohort study found. The risk persisted throughout ...

A trio of suspects allegedly had one of them fake a seizure to distract employees as they stole puppies from a Colorado pet store, police say. Two bulldog puppies were stolen on Sunday from ...

A pair of thieves made off with two English bulldog puppies at a Colorado pet store after one of them created a distraction by faking a seizure in a wild caught-on-video heist. Security footage ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Epilepsy affected nearly 52 million people globally in 2021, with a 10.8% increase in cases since 1990, likely due to improved identification. Deaths from ...

We asked skin doctors to share the weird or surprising symptoms that make them take notice. Dr. Rina Weimann constantly sees patients who come in complaining about a solitary, stubborn bump they ...

fits (seizures) regularly feeling sick (vomiting) memory problems or changes in personality weakness, vision problems or speech problems that get worse See a GP if you have symptoms of a brain ...

Seizures affect people in different ways - symptoms include jerking and shaking, becoming stiff and losing awareness - and can mean regular visits to accident-and-emergency units. Removing a small ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Using well established Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) methodology, we quantified the ...