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Novartis has issued new warnings for its antiepilepsy drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) that highlight the drug’s serious skin-related side-effects such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). SJS is a hypersensitivity...
Putting Valium up the back passage is one new treatment tried to stop epileptic fits. It's been tested at the New England Medical Center in Boston on 125 patients, including 47 children, all with ...
Valproate is a powerful anti-epileptic drug. In fact, you could say that it doesn't take prisoners. But now researchers have discovered that it can affect the next generation, too. A study of 219 mothers who were taking valproate when they were...
A large body of opinon believes food allergy underlies the para-epilepsies-narcolepsy and cataplexy-disorders with sudden sleep attacks and sudden muscle weakness and control, respectively, but no ...
Fasting is the voluntary abstention from food for a period, which can range from 12 hours to 90 days or more. Most therapeutic fasts are, however, usually for between three to seven days. Liquid ...
There’s no excuse for sloppy care, especially of epilepsy patients, when seizure-control guidelines are set in stone. Yet the report of the National Sentinel Clinical Audit of Epilepsy-Related Death says
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Does a doctor know more about a child's wellbeing than her mother? Can an occasional examination allow him to see things that a mother can't? Does the doctor always know best? ...
