November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, but epilepsy does not respect a calendar. It is present every day in offices, warehouses, retail spaces, restaurants, manufacturing floors and corporate campuses.
Pediatrician Anna Milz used to clear her work schedule to go on school field trips with her son Jacob. He's 12, in middle school, plays Dungeons & Dragons with his friends in his free time and also ...
MT. EPHRAIM, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Paul St. Pierre, a 17-year-old student at Eastern High School in Voorhees Township, has spent nearly a half decade fighting for seizure safety in New Jersey. "In 2019 ...
Dr. David Moore lives in Ames. Over 4,400 Iowa kids endure the challenges of managing their epilepsy in school buildings across the state with educators who have little or no training in seizure ...
MAPLE SHADE, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A New Jersey teenager made it his mission to make schools safe for children, like him, who have epilepsy. Now, he's onto his next life-saving mission. Last year, when ...
As the weather gets warmer, people with epilepsy should be aware of the risks this brings for seizures. Some patients may be sensitive to heat, and some have suggested there are higher rates of ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A state law is now being put into action in the name of school safety. For the first time, school districts across the state are following the Seizure Safe Schools Act. Last May ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — About 5,000 kids in Arkansas are living with epilepsy. “That's a condition I’ve had since I was four," Sadie Kirk said. "It feels like my whole life." Savanna Sexton is also living ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - Gov. Henry McMaster held a bill-signing ceremony to mark the passage of the “Seizure Safe Schools Act,” which he officially signed into law in May. The governor was joined ...
On his 25th birthday, Barney Hewitt suffered a violent medical crisis that fractured both shoulders and ruptured a lung. Soon after, doctors diagnosed an incurable brain tumor. The case highlights how ...
Individuals with a rare form of epilepsy treated with fenfluramine experienced significantly greater seizure reduction as ...