There are a wide number of medications available for treating epilepsy in children, and advances in the past years have made a difference. WebMD tells you more.

In all, researchers are planning to enroll 150 children - all of whom have severe, difficult-to-treat epilepsy - in the United States and the United Kingdom and follow each of them for three months.

Children and Epilepsy Medicine. If your child is taking drugs for their epilepsy, work with their doctor to make sure they're taking them correctly. You'll need to: ...

For children with epilepsy, doctors now try to prevent seizures altogether. It's a big switch in thinking from the days when seizures weren't considered such a bad thing.

There's good news for kids with epilepsy. While several new drugs have come out in the last several years for adults with epilepsy, making those drugs available for children and teenagers has been ...

THURSDAY, March 31, 2016 -- Even when their seizures are well-controlled, children with epilepsy can still have learning and behavioral disorders that lead to social and educational problems when ...

Encinitas fifth grader Nikolai “Niko” Safonov is like many kids his age. He loves the video game “Fortnite,” playing basketball with his friends, and his favorite superhero is Spiderman.

Children in England living with a rare and severe form of epilepsy could soon benefit from a new drug being rolled out on the NHS. Fenfluramine has been recommended by the National Institute for ...

Common causes of seizures in children Febrile seizures. Febrile seizures are one of the most common types of seizures in children, typically occurring between the ages of 6 months and five years.

A study on 50 preschool-aged children with epilepsy who underwent surgical treatment showed significant improvements on overall cognitive development and left many seizure-free. The article is ...

Nicole Gross was so desperate to find relief for her son’s near-constant, debilitating seizures that she moved him from Naperville to Colorado so he could receive medical marijuana. Weeks after ...

Children exposed in the womb to the drug sodium valproate, used to treat epilepsy, or a combination of anti-epileptic drugs, had poorer academic scores in math, language and science in early ...