2024
March
26,
2024
|
12:55 PM
America/Chicago
By Jean YaegerWhenever Luke Waggoner’s seizures start ramping up, his mom Ami can make a switch on her phone that changes the rhythm of electrical activity delivered to his brain.Inside Luke’s body is a network of tech devices and wires – running …
Read more
2023
July
28,
2023
|
10:43 AM
America/Chicago
By Ashley AntleToday, Cook Children’s Medical Center - Prosper launched a new testing and diagnostic service that allows children experiencing seizures to receive care closer to their homes and communities. The test, called continuous …
Read more
2020
January
09,
2020
|
09:37 AM
America/Chicago
“I went to the hospital on a warm summer day with fear in my heart, I felt some dismay. The registrar said, with a smile on her face, ‘Let me show you your room, it’s a very nice place.’”
For most of her 20 years, …
Read more
2019
December
19,
2019
|
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 …
Read more
2018
November
13,
2018
|
14:39 PM
America/Chicago
This is the second in a series as we follow a Cook Children's patient and the art of treating epilepsy. Click here to read the first part of the series.
Read more
November
06,
2018
|
10:15 AM
America/Chicago
Welcome to the First in a SeriesMore than 3.4 million people in the US live with active epilepsy and over 150,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. It sounds astonishing, but 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime and over one-third …
Read more
June
19,
2018
|
15:43 PM
America/Chicago
“The Incredibles 2” scored the biggest domestic debut ever for an animated movie, making more than $180 million since its release on June 15. With a 14-year hiatus between the original and the sequel, audiences were more than eager to …
Read more
February
01,
2018
|
09:13 AM
America/Chicago
WFAA - News broke Monday that Texas' first medical marijuana dispensary will open on Feb. 8, near — where else — Austin.
Compassionate Cultivation will be the first of the three licensed dispensaries to open in the state, but …
Read more
2017
October
03,
2017
|
11:36 AM
America/Chicago
Could a component of the diet pill “fen-phen” be the answer for patients with a severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome?
Fenfluramine was originally used as a weight-loss drug before being pulled from the market in 1997 …
Read more
July
12,
2017
|
16:57 PM
America/Chicago
NBC DFW - There is more proof that some forms of medical marijuana can safely treat certain disorders.
The Food and Drug Administration has published results of an ongoing study that found cannabis oil can dramatically decrease the number of …
Read more
January
30,
2017
|
09:38 AM
America/Chicago
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is once again recommending that parents stop the use of homeopathic teething tabs and gels over concerns of adverse events, including seizures, in babies following their use.
The FDA's lab found …
Read more
2016
November
04,
2016
|
09:51 AM
America/Chicago
Bonita Ocampo stood on her grandmother’s porch and performed for her cousins. Her guaranteed laugh was her impersonation of Pee-wee Herman. After all, nothing was funnier than Pee-wee in the 1980s.
Then her diagnosis of epilepsy at 7 …
Read more
October
13,
2016
|
16:01 PM
America/Chicago
I try to downplay concerns about fevers. You can read more about that here and here.
Once people have heard my reasoning, they can get on board that fever isn’t as big of a deal as they once thought except for one MAJOR question:
What …
Read more
