4 Paws for Allison: Furry friend needed to predict rare seizures - WNDU
25 May 2012, 12:37 pm
We all worry about how our kids will do in school, whether they are safe in their cars or will they make the team. Important things, but certainly ones to put in perspective when you miss kids like 4-year-old Allison Krupp of Plymouth. Allison suffers from ...

'Miracle' Diet of Reverse Engineering Epilepsy - Med India
25 May 2012, 3:11 am
Neurologists have known for long that a diet high in fat and exceedingly low in carbohydrates can lessen epileptic seizures, which resist drug therapy. But how the diet worked, and why, was a mystery—so much so that in 2010, The New York Times ...

HM Customs cigarette seizures – six arrests - Gibraltar Chronicle
25 May 2012, 1:59 am
Six men have been arrested by HM Customs for offences under the Tobacco Act. Two vehicles and 68,680 cigarettes have been seized in four separate incidents. Two local men (aged 40 and 23) were arrested by HM Customs following the execution of a search ...

Stress can mimic seizures, inner conflict misunderstood - Examiner
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Are you aware that stress can bring on distress that mimics numerous physical ailments, including epileptic seizures? These seizures are called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), which may be pronounced in individuals who are unable to accurately ...

Boy diagnosed with life-threatening illness on Facebook after worried mother posted footage of seizures online - Daily Mail
20 May 2012, 7:02 pm
A baby boy was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness using Facebook - after a friend spotted his rare condition which doctors had missed. Little Evan Owens suffered from seizures but medics thought he was just holding his breath during tantrums.

Teen Blames Bizarre Accent, Violent seizures on Lyme Disease - ABC News
17 May 2012, 6:58 pm
You’d never know it sitting across from 16-year-old Elaina that she suffers from a rare and debilitating case of Lyme disease. The spark-plug of a teen is bright, bubbly, and optimistic in the face of what she describes as a four-year nightmare.

No Laughing Matter: New Surgery Offers Hope to Children With Dangerous Giggling seizures - ABC News
17 May 2012, 4:25 am
It is the most treasured and joyous sound for nearly every parent: their child's laughter. But for a rare number of children, laughter can signal a potentially devastating, even fatal future, and their parents will do anything to make the ...

Drug seizures highest in a decade - Sunshine Coast Daily
17 May 2012, 3:42 am
A COCAINE bust in Redcliffe - the third biggest in Australia's history - accounted for 60% of national cocaine seizures in 2010-11, the Australian Crime Commission has revealed. The ACC's Illicit Drug Data Report 2010-11, released on Thursday by Home ...

2 seizures net $1.2 million in cocaine, meth - Brownsville Herald
11 May 2012, 2:41 pm
In two different seizures Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Brownsville discovered about $1.2 million in what they say is methamphetamine and cocaine, CBP spokesman Eddie Perez said. Officers at the B&M International ...

Future seizures in People With Epilepsy Predicted by Response to First Drug Treatment - Med India
11 May 2012, 10:30 am
A new study has revealed that response to first drug treatment in people with newly-diagnosed epilepsy may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have more seizures. The study is published in the May 9, 2012, online issue of ...