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The helpless feeling of seeing a seizure for the first time can be a frightening experience. It was particularly dangerous for mother of five Kelly Wiggett, who was alone when she had two seizures on a bus in Gloucester. She could have died but for the quick-thinking actions of the... read more →

A seriously ill child is fighting for her life after contracting salmonella food poisoning in the hospital. Three-year-old Freya Hunter, who needs to be fed through a tube, caught the killer bug during treatment. Mom Carolynne Hunter believes her daughter got the bug while being fed milk and water through... read more →

That dizzy feeling you get when opening an app on your new iOS 7 operating system is not the excitement of owning the latest gadget from Apple. It could be vertigo or motion sickness. In short, your iPhone or iPad could be making you sick. Since the iPhone 5 release... read more →

The Coors Cowboy Club will cook up steaks for an epilepsy fundraiser Saturday. The Great Epilepsy Steakout opens at 6:30 p.m. at the Piehl Barn, 2.5 miles north of Bushland off Simmons Road. “Epilepsy affects about one in 26 people,” said Lindsie Burk, event coordinator for the Epilepsy Foundation of... read more →

It's not unusual for 12-year-olds to get excited about an action-packed adventure weekend with everything from climbing to kayaking on offer. It is for Isha. She was diagnosed with epilepsy at the start of the year and just two months ago underwent major surgery to remove a brain tumour. She... read more →

It never ceases to amaze how sports can become a morality play, and take so many wrong and disgusting turns along the way. Take the case of the football coach of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, Jerry Kill. Kill has epilepsy. He has had four seizures during games, including... read more →

Young children exposed to epilepsy drugs in the womb are at increased risk of having impaired fine motor skills, according to a new study. Exposure to the drugs in breast milk, however, does not appear to pose a threat. Researchers looked at data collected from Norwegian mothers about their children's... read more →

On the last day of her life, Pennsylvania teenager Alyssa O’Neill texted her parents with a simple request: That they take her for a pumpkin spiced latte the next day. But on Sept. 4, the 18-year-old died of an epileptic seizure, just a year after being diagnosed with the condition.... read more →

A new study has concluded that children with temporal lobe epilepsy are more likely to have their autobiographical memory impaired than age and gender-matched control subjects, finding it harder to recall individual details when describing events from their lives. Autobiographical memory comprises two distinct strands: semantic memory, which means the... read more →

Bobby Becker would hate that you’re reading about him right now. The 26-year-old did not make a big deal out of having epilepsy, and while his friends could always count on him, he didn’t like to be the center of attention. Bobby’s parents, Denise Fenton and Bobby Becker, acknowledge that,... read more →