Researchers are optimistic after early results showed that experimental drug treatment zorevunersen may significantly reduce the number of seizures in children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.

Children and young adults with severe forms of epilepsy that does not respond to standard antiepileptic drugs have fewer seizures when treated with purified cannabinoid, according to a multi-center ...

UVA researchers used advanced gene editing to reverse a genetic mutation, offering hope for new treatments or cures.

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 ...

Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the ...

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 & ...

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: ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Eight-year-old Freddie Truelove used to have hundreds of seizures a day. Now he has a couple a week — and his mother ...