Epilepsy in the News

Remembering Marieke & educating about epilepsy
Actress Kendal Brenneman has performed in both film and television, but her hardest role to date was saying goodbye to a young lady who changed her life.
April 21st, 2008

Fighting epilepsy with a fork
An 8-year-old first-grader from Orient is among an increasing number of children with epilepsy whose lives have been transformed by a diet dating from biblical times.
March 3, 2008

Epileptic boy drowned in condo pool after fits
He had suffered from epilepsy since he was two years old and had attacks at least six times a month. One such seizure eventually led to Jonathan Chow Kin Mun's drowning while swimming in the pool of the condominium where he lived.
January 24, 2008

Early Treatment Stops Epilepsy In Its Tracks
Yale School of Medicine researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to suppress the development of epilepsy in genetically predisposed animals-which could open the door to treating epilepsy as a preventable disease.
December 13, 2007

Teen Who Saved Friend's Life Honored
In August, Matt Cross, 15, had an epileptic seizure while swimming on Maracook Lake. Fortunately, his friend, Geoff Briggs, sprang into action.
November 18, 2007

Ketogenic Diet: Epilepsy Cure?
A recent Carte Blanche programme featured the use of the controversial ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children.
November 12, 2007

Implant Helps Man Control Epilepsy
Stephen Qualkinbush is now seizure-free, thanks to a device implanted under the skin of his chest. The device, a vagus-nerve stimulator, or VNS, sends electrical signals through a wire connected to the vagus nerve, a nerve deep within the brain.
October 30, 2007

Hunter Tylo's Son Remembered by Friends and Family
Michael Edward Tylo II died Oct. 18 in a drowning accident at the family home in Henderson, Nev., after suffering from an epileptic seizure. He was 19.
October 26, 2007

Epileptic man drowned in bath during fit
A young man who suffered from epilepsy drowned in his bath when he had a fit, an inquest heard. Douglas David Lewis, 30, was found in the bath at his home in Princes Avenue, Buckley, by a friend, the hearing in Flint was told yesterday.
April 24, 2007

Campaign plea
A father, whose son died during an epileptic fit, is backing a campaign for better awareness of the condition.
December 8, 2005

Epilepsy Girl Was Classed a "Low Risk"
A TEENAGE epilepsy sufferer, who died in the same circumstances as her mother, would still be alive if doctors had not spent years underestimating her condition, the last day of a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday.
June 2002

High Fat Diet Dramatically Cuts Severe Epilepsy
Between three and six years after stopping the diet, one quarter of 150 treated children were free from seizures and more than half showed a 50 per cent reduction in seizure frequency.
October 2001

3 Dismissed From Hospital After an Epileptic Boy Dies
Three employees at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital have been dismissed and two others face suspension following the death of a 14-year-old epileptic patient who suffered a seizure and drowned while left unattended in a bathtub....
August 31, 1986