Epilepsy News Stories

CBS 60 Minutes aired the special Epilepsy: Fighting For A Cure on 06/27/10. It is the background story on Epilepsy and explains research and new potential cures. Click here to watch the story.

Epilepsy patients caught in treatment gap are not getting state-of-the-art care

Birth defects caused by medications avoidable: study

Newsweek article: In the Grip of the Unknown

BBC News:
Clue to 'drug-resistant' epilepsy

Epilepsy News Feeds from Epilepsy.com

Neuro News December Issue

CTV News:
Few epileptics taking advantage of surgery option

Medical Officers of Health Call for Closing the Health Gap in Canada's Large Cities


Washington Post - Epilepsy Receiving Inadequate Attention

Jets Lineman an Inspiration to Those With Epilepsy 

CBC - Seizures: What they are, and what causes them

The Chronicle Herald - Dal prof is first chair in child epilepsy

Mercury News - Michelle Brown doesn't let epilepsy stop her from running the Wharf to Wharf

Epilepsy drugs may raise_autism_risk_in offspring

Epilepsy and President Barack Obama:
David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to Barack Obama is married to Susan Alexrod, President and founding member of CURE. Also, Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff is "a strong advocate of increasing federal funding for epilepsy research and epilepsy awareness and has focused specifically on funding geared towards Iraqi War veterans whose traumatic brain injuries are expected to lead to epilepsy in a large number of cases."