Seizures in children: Signs to look for and what to do - If you see someone having a seizure or fit, there are some simple things you can do to help.

A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy. In clinical trials, the treatment zorevunersen cut seizures by as much as 91 ...

Objective: The aim was to study the epidemiological aspects of febrile seizures and to identify etiologies in children from 1 ...

The administration of oral cannabis extracts is associated with the mitigation of seizures in adolescents with epilepsy, according to clinical data published this month in the journal Epilepsy & ...

Occur only once per 24-hour period. Events that seem otherwise like febrile seizures but that violate these rules, usually by longer duration or by having multiple recurrences in 24 hours, are ...

Background. Klein and colleagues have previously published data [1] on the frequency of febrile seizures after receipt of the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine. They demonstrated that the ...

A new experimental treatment for children with a hard-to-treat form of epilepsy is safe and can reduce seizures dramatically, helping them lead much healthier and happier lives, the findings of a UCL ...

Dravet syndrome affects about 1 in 17,500 children. Having two daughters with the condition is “extraordinarily uncommon.” ...

Seizures in newborns are one of the most frequent acute neurological conditions among infants admitted to neonatal care units. A study published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology indicates ...

On the fourth floor of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital — past blue and white walls designed with underwater bubbles and waves — a new medical clinic treats children at their most vulnerable: ...