Just weeks before that tragic night, Damon Carter was clearing the high jump bar with ease. Carter, one of the best jumpers ever on the always-strong Pottsgrove High track team, graduated that spring, in 2012, wrapping up a terrific four-year high school career. He was the last of five Carter... read more →
Oct
14
Oct
14
A special needs high school student from Texas has been subjected to vicious bullying, receiving a barrage of offensive text messages from strangers poking fun at her condition and threatening to rape and kill her. Shea Shawhan, of Plano, is 18 years old but has the mental capacity of an... read more →
Oct
11
A Great Dane is helping the Co Clare family of a three year-old girl with epilepsy to respond to her frequent seizures. Charlie the dog can detect the onset of a seizure for Brianna Lynch 20 minutes before the start of the episode. Brianna suffers from different forms of epileptic... read more →
Oct
11
Even as his seizures have grown in frequency the past two years, Minnesota coach Jerry Kill has always maintained that his epilepsy never would slow him down. When he wasn't able to make it to a game for the first time in his coaching career last weekend against Michigan, Kill... read more →
Oct
08
During his first year, Finnegan Born-Crow suffered 50 to 100 seizures a day. That was until he received a revolutionary new surgery and he hasn't had one since. The first time Nicole Born-Crow noticed her baby son having a seizure, the family was on a vacation to New York. 'It... read more →
Oct
08
Coltyn Runyon has difficulty speaking and relies on a wheelchair to get around. But that didn't keep the 10-year-old Nebraska City boy from shooting a bow and arrow, fishing, dancing and singing around a campfire last month at Camp YouCan. offering check cashing and That's exactly the goal of the... read more →
Oct
07
Doctors have successfully operated on a 16-year-old epileptic patient while he was awake and humming songs. Arvind Mohan Kumar, who has been suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy for 11 years, was instructed to remain alert through singing, listening and identifying melodies in the operation theatre at Nimhans in Bangalore, so that... read more →
Oct
06
Gophers football coach Jerry Kill suffered a seizure on Saturday morning and did not travel with the team for the game at Michigan, according to a University of Minnesota athletics department statement. Kill, who has epilepsy, had not missed an entire game because of his condition. The third-year coach suffered... read more →
Oct
04
Paula Lyle's daughter, Jordan, suffers with Dravet syndrome, which is a rare and terrible form of pediatric epilepsy. After viewing CNN's investigative special Weed hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Paula made the challenging decision to move her and her daughter to Colorado so she could legally access a highly concentrated... read more →
Oct
02
"At the risk of getting the windows egged and the car toilet papered, we’re skipping the chocolates and candies this year for Halloween. In early September, my wife saw flats of mini-sized Play-Doh for cheap at the warehouse store. She scooped up 2. Perfect for birthday party loot bags, playing... read more →