What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn the last five years it has become virtual dogma that a low fat diet is a healthy diet. The same people who 20 years ago used to urge us to eat plenty of meat and cheese now encourage us toward ...
MMR: A reaction that they can't deny
Phenobarbital, the world's oldest epilepsy drug, has fallen out of favour in the last decade or so. In the UK doctors have been forbidden to prescribe it because of its toxic effects, so now it's just given to our dogs - and to the people in the...
Q:I first had an epileptic seizure 32 years ago, and for the following 10 years had about two grandmal seizures a year. Following the first episode I was put on phenobarbitone, which I have rema ...
The actual causes of seizures are still relatively unknown. The majority of patients with epilepsy can identify at least one precipitant that can trigger or exacerbate seizures
It is the second most common neurological disorder after stroke - affecting one in 2000 people. However, this is not a simple disorder, but a group of central nervous system (CNS) disorders
EPILEPSY: If you’ve been told your child has it, he probably hasn’t
Further to your main article on epilepsy (WDDTY vol 14 no 4), a series of studies was carried out at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in the 1980s under Professor Soothill, with Jo Egger and Christine Carter.
I had a stroke about 18 years ago, at age 42. Afterwards, my right arm and leg were useless and, although I could talk, for about six months, my speech was ‘gibberish’. Thanks to therapy, my speech improved
OTITIS MEDIA
Try osteopathy before grommets
Osteopathy offers a long-term solution to acute otitis media (AOM), a childhood ear infection usually treated with antibiotics.
