Two drugs commonly given during cardiac surgery can lead to convulsive seizures, but anesthetics can help cut the risk, according to new research from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of ...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There is new hope for epilepsy patients. A new study shows that patients who had brain surgery and continued drug therapy, had a lower risk of seizures during the second year of ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting 3.4 million Americans or 1 in 26 over a lifetime. The hallmark of epilepsy is seizures caused by abnormal bursts of electrical ...

Carotid revascularization was associated with a reduced risk for short- and long-term incident seizures or epilepsy compared with no revascularization in patients with carotid stenosis, new research ...

Children with neonatal seizures had a 20.4% cumulative risk for epilepsy by age 22, whereas those without seizures had a risk of 1.15%, a new cohort study found. The risk persisted throughout ...

First-time seizures were associated with a higher relative risk of both neurologic and non-neurologic cancers within 1 year. Relative to the general population, the standardized incidence ratio was 76 ...