When Ballarat’s four Pickersgill sisters lost their aunt to a seizure a year ago, they did not want her death to be in vain. So Annabel, 18, and Harriet, 16, will shave their heads on Sunday to raise funds for Epilepsy Australia while younger sisters Bea, 14, and Daisy, 12, will cut... read more →
A Northland family is being torn apart in their bid to give their six-year-old daughter cannabis oil. Jessika and Brendan Guest moved from America to Whangarei last year but Jessika Guest and their two children Jade, 6, and Ethan, 8, are heading back to Colorado where they can legally source... read more →
A Tennessee couple among the 100,000-plus people in the state left uninsured because of a gap left by Obamacare and Medicaid have separated in order to stay covered. Linda and Larry Drain of Maryville have moved apart because couples whose household makes less than $15,510 don't qualify for Affordable Care... read more →
Unlike Oregon and California, Idaho doesn't have medical marijuana. In fact, in 2013, Idaho lawmakers passed a resolution saying they would never support legalizing marijuana for any reason. But one year later, during the 2014 legislative session, many of those same lawmakers held closed-door discussions about creating an exception to... read more →
Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy.His mother begged him not to go. "The better treatment would have been if he stayed," Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday.... read more →
You're invited to the Pirates Family Fun Run & Walk for Epilepsy on Saturday, July 19 at PNC Park. Join us for a day of good health and great fun! Proceeds benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of Western & Central Pennsylvania. This summer, the Epilepsy Foundation Western/Central Pennsylvania (EFWCP) will be... read more →
Neurologists at Primary Children’s Hospital are one step closer to being able to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade cannabis to children and teens with severe epilepsy. Only those who apply to be part of a drug trial will be eligible — 25 spots are available — and it’s not known when the study... read more →
To talk with Ella Romig today is like talking with a typical 11-year-old girl. She’ll list all the things she likes to do — volleyball, reading, dancing, singing and more. It wasn’t more than a year ago, though, that Ella could only imagine doing some of those things. She suffered... read more →
Medics have decoded a teenager’s genetic make-up and made a 12-year breakthrough in the diagnosis of her violent seizures. Hannah Patmore, 14, has suffered from polymorphic seizure disorder ever since she was just two years old after she began having seizures. For more than a decade doctors have tirelessly tried... read more →
In a small rural community around the Shiselweni region is a *Nsingwayo family living with an epileptic young man without food, shelter, education and worst; clothes to wear in this chilling winter season. *Menzi Nsingwayo (26) has been living with the condition from birth and as a result of his... read more →
