Charlene Tan-Smith, a dietician working in New Zealand has created the KetoSuite app for Ketogenic Diet treatment in children with epilepsy. The KetoSuite app not only helps dieticians prescribing the Ketogenic Diet as a treatment…
Seer Medical – an Australian-based technology start-up specializing in data analysis for epilepsy – has teamed up with in Professor Mark Cook – the Director of the Neurology at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia…
May is MedicAlert Month so it is a great time to talk about MedicAlert bracelets that have a medical condition engraved on its surface. MedicAlert bracelets are important so that the people around you are…
SUDEP, also known as Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, refers to the premature death of a person with epilepsy that is not associated with any other known cause of death. They are often found deceased…
We are excited to announce that Unashamed and Unafraid: My Journey with Epilepsy by Allison Hegedus is now available on Amazon Kindle! In her debut novel, Unashamed and Unafraid: My Journey with Epilepsy, Allison Hegedus,…
Data done on pediatric epilepsy surgery by Dwivedi et al. (2017) found that 77% of children and youth living with epilepsy were seizure free at one year after epilepsy brain surgery compared to only 7%…
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