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Little Newtownards girl Ellsa Alexander-Adams has battled severe epilepsy and needs a final push to raise enough money to take her to America for treatment. Ellsa will be one-year-old next month but since the age of seven weeks the pretty little girl has battled multiple seizures which have begun to get worse. In fact,... read more →

Alexia and Alayna are being hailed as heroes. Their mother is alive thanks to their live-saving efforts on Sunday night. 5-year-olds Alexia and Alayna Mouget were just about ready for bed, but one sister wanted a glass of water so she called out to her mom, Kelly. When mom never answer,... read more →

A 22-year-old student from Perth, Australia, has posted a shocking video of a narrow escape. Christopher Jones had a seizure while skydiving, but luckily was saved mid-air by his instructor. The whole incident was captured on a helmet-mounted camera. The jump was from 12,000 feet (3,600 meters), and the seizure occurred... read more →

An Aurora family is hoping the community will help their 10-year-old daughter who lives with epilepsy. McKenna Birka will go to middle school next year and she hopes a service dog will help give her freedom to live a little easier. McKenna has several seizures a week. A service dog would be... read more →

Many know the name Dale Jackson from his role in politics, but to him and his family, Jackson’s most important title is “dad.”   Jackson has three children, but it is his 6-year-old son, Colin, he is fighting for at the state capitol. Colin is autistic and according to Jackson,... read more →

A cannabis extract that some parents believe may help treat seizures experienced by their children with epilepsy may be available in Missouri this year. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the Missouri Department of Agriculture last week issued permits for two companies to grow cannabis under a state law allowing some... read more →

Nine year old uses mother's experience to raise epilepsy awareness If you ask nine-year-old Evan Newhook what his favorite thing to do is, he'll say draw. The outgoing Woodland Elementary student has a set of drawing pencils, a sketchbook and a Crayola Sketch Wizard, which he received for Christmas. He... read more →

Charlotte Roberts wants to be able to walk, dance and have fun with her friends at school — just like any other little girl. But the smiling six-year-old’s dreams are frustratingly out of reach. Charlotte, from Chadderton, lives with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, which means she can’t walk or even sit unaided. The youngster,... read more →

After more than a year of hard work, Anoka-Hennepin is the first school district in the state to be named a Seizure Smart School District by the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota. Several individual schools in the district had been designated as “Seizure Smart,” but parent Paul Meunier wanted to go... read more →

For the Goodnow family, life hasn't been easy over the last few years. Their 3-year-old son, Hunter, was born with a spinal cord defect, known as Spina Bifida inutero, and was later diagnosed with epilepsy. Through all of this, he has went through surgeries and dealt with seizures. It all... read more →