Several weeks after NBC News reached out to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield about the denial, the insurer changed its policy to ...

In our series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Maggie Vespa reports on a 13-year-old Illinois girl who suffers from as many as ...

Guwahati: AIIMS-Guwahati has launched epilepsy surgery services under its comprehensive epilepsy care programme, making it the first govt facility in the the northeast to have such a ...

A simple scoring system from researchers at Rutgers Health and other institutions may help doctors predict which patients will likely become seizure-free after minimally invasive epilepsy surgery.

Epilepsy surgery is a very effective intervention for patients with treatment resistant epilepsy. The most successful and most common epilepsy surgery is temporal lobectomy, which produces seizure ...

SEATTLE -- For patients with drug-refractory epilepsy who are eligible for surgical treatment, their outcomes end up better than continuing on medical therapy in most cases, two new studies suggested.

In the 58% of patients who became seizure-free in a randomized trial, [3] quality of life, employment status and school attendance improved. There were no deaths, although 1 patient in the control ...

GOOD LUCK TO YOU TONIGHT. A NEW WAY TO HEAL. THE MOST COMMON CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE IN THE U.S. EPILEPSY. NEARLY 3 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE IT CAUSING DISRUPTIVE AND DANGEROUS SEIZURES. BUT NOW THERE IS A ...

Epilepsy surgery has been shown to be an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage ...

A team from the University of Melbourne in Australia and the University of Birmingham demonstrated that magnetoencephalographic (MEG) imaging can be used to produce a dynamic map of the whole brain ...

Children with drug-resistant epilepsy who are Black or insured through Medicaid may be less likely than white and privately insured patients to receive surgical treatments that can end or minimize ...