2021
November
22,
2021
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09:53 AM
America/Chicago
Multiple times each night, as Baylie Williams sleeps, sudden electrical bursts in her brain will misfire and send the 4-year-old girl into seizures.Her head and arms lift. Her eyes open, turned to the side. Her body goes rigid and she loses bladder c...
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March
24,
2021
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09:46 AM
America/Chicago
The decision to choose brain surgery is never easy for a parent.But for some patients with severe seizures who have not responded to medications or who have had significant side effects with medications, epilepsy surgery might be the best option. The...
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February
24,
2021
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08:38 AM
America/Chicago
Today is SCN2A Awareness Day, a day recognizing a rare cause of epilepsy, intellectual disability, and autism. The SCN2A gene is found on chromosome 2 position 24.3, thus the significance of 2/24.To help raise awareness of this rare genetic cause of ...
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February
08,
2021
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09:47 AM
America/Chicago
Seizures aren’t as uncommon as one might think. In fact, one in 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. Apply that statistic to a typical school classroom, church, wo...
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2020
December
28,
2020
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13:24 PM
America/Chicago
Seventeen-year-old Virginia Cooper is patiently awaiting acceptance into her dream college. This, a long-awaited hope for her family and neurologist, after 16 years of suffering from seizures. “Virginia has intractable localization related epilepsy o...
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December
01,
2020
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10:32 AM
America/Chicago
Cook Children’s Patient Becomes First in North Texas Implanted With Smart Device to Control Seizures
Cook Children’s Medical Center is the first pediatric hospital in the DFW Metroplex to implant a potentially life-changing treatment device in a patient suffering from epilepsy. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, 13-year-old Wyatt Keele of Lavaca, Ark., underwent...
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November
09,
2020
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10:14 AM
America/Chicago
A seizure can happen anytime, anywhere to anyone. That’s why Cook Children’s Medical Center is on a mission to increase awareness about seizures and their many subtleties. In November, the medical center is rolling out the Epilepsy Foundation’s Seizu...
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November
02,
2020
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11:12 AM
America/Chicago
NBC 5 helped us kick off Epilepsy Awareness Month last night with a feature story about a Cook Children’s patient who’s now three years seizure free thanks to a groundbreaking clinical trial.Miller Queen suffers from a severe and debilitating form of...
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2019
December
19,
2019
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09:50 AM
America/Chicago
The world is buzzing about the release of the latest film in the Star Wars saga “The Rise of Skywalker” set to hit the big screen tonight. Earlier this month, Disney released a statement with the Epilepsy Foundation warning viewers that certain scene...
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November
25,
2019
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11:29 AM
America/Chicago
Aaden Balderamos hops up and down, squealing with joy as the bubbles float into the air.
"Bubbles. Bubbles. Up. Up. Pop!"
The nurse taking Aaden's vitals before his doctor's appointment can't help but smile too. She's blowing the bubbles as she...
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November
22,
2019
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14:11 PM
America/Chicago
Sitting outside of a movie theater, Damian Wells hoped he’d embarrassed himself for the last time.
Moments earlier, the 15-year-old Weatherford, Texas teen was watching a movie with his younger sisters when all of the sudden, a fit of cursing and ...
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August
14,
2019
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10:10 AM
America/Chicago
Getting ready for a new school year means more than new school supplies and shoes for kids with epilepsy. For these kids and their caregivers, it also means making sure school staff are ready if a child has a seizure while at school.
Making a scho...
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2018
August
09,
2018
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16:30 PM
America/Chicago
NBC DFW - Saleem Malik, M.D. came to the U.S. with a dream of pursuing advanced medicine. He's now one of the state's top pediatric neurologists & runs a special lab at Cook Children's (1 of only 3 of its kind in Texas) where he's able to detect spot...
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April
23,
2018
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14:22 PM
America/Chicago
Texas Tribune - In 2015, Texas passed the Compassionate Use Act, legalizing the sale of a specific type of cannabis oil for epilepsy patients whose symptoms have not responded to federally approved medication.
The first Texas dispensaries are now ...
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2017
August
03,
2017
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10:50 AM
America/Chicago
WFAA - In many ways, Kadience Mulanax is like any other 7-year-old girl who loves t-ball and cell-phone video games. There is a part of her life her parents wish they could change, for her sake.
"I don’t know that she’s ever had a time where she’...
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January
18,
2017
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16:46 PM
America/Chicago
Don’t panic! If you see your child (or any child) convulsing, take a deep breath. It’s more important that you remain calm.
First, protect the child from harm. Position the child in their side. They should not lie on their stomachs. Children have ...
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