Dan Dougherty is on a mission to educate people about the disorder that changed his life 32 years ago. Dougherty is an epilepsy advocate and public speaker who informs groups about the neurological disorder, giving them the facts, sharing stories and distributing information about how to help someone who is... read more →
Apr
10
Apr
10
Dan Dougherty is on a mission to educate people about the disorder that changed his life 32 years ago. Dougherty is an epilepsy advocate and public speaker who informs groups about the neurological disorder, giving them the facts, sharing stories and distributing information about how to help someone who is... read more →
Apr
08
Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. http://shearpresence.com/mhtml/ Fast forward to... read more →
Apr
07
After 25 failed epilepsy medications, Nazy Nouri had two treatment choices for her 9-year-old daughter: cutting out part of the little girl’s brain or marijuana. “I really felt like we had nothing to lose; this was the last resort,” Nouri said. “If it doesn’t work, then we were going to... read more →
Apr
07
The Epilepsy Foundation is helping three people in the Pittsburgh area live with less fear about when their next seizure may occur. It’s been said that dogs are man’s best friend. This is no exception. They are amazing animals. They can carry an epileptic patient’s medicine and hit a button... read more →
Apr
04
Epilepsy can be a difficult condition for youngsters to come to terms with but this brave 15-year-old appears to have taken it in her stride. Olivia Bennett found out she had the neurological condition in 2011 when she was in year seven after her first seizure during a dance club.... read more →
Apr
04
Get ready to hear more about Epilepsy in Kansas and Missouri. Two teenaged ambassadors with the Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri and Kansas just returned from a national convention in Washington D.C. News reporter interviewed Lexi Harmon, Teen Ambassador from Kansas and Emily Ranza, Teen Ambassador from Kansas on 41 Action... read more →
Apr
03
A racing industry so often divided by opinion has united in its grief over the death of young jockey Nathan Berry. The 23-year-old died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday afternoon, just hours after his family brought him home from Singapore where he had been seriously ill for more than... read more →
Apr
03
A fundraising campaign has been launched for an East Kilbride boy with a rare and devastating form of epilepsy. Max McGhie was only four years old when he was diagnosed with Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, which causes frequent and multiple seizures. Now aged 13, the drug-resistant condition has left the youngster... read more →
Apr
03
At the age of 2, Wyatt suffers multiple seizures a day, and his mother, Jessica Hauser, worries what effect his infantile spasms may have on his neurological development. According to Hauser, the family has tried over 10 different types of medication to treat Wyatt’s epilepsy with no positive results and... read more →