The number of Americans with epilepsy is on the rise, with at least 3 million adults and 470,000 children living with the disorder, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control ...

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A crowd of purple shirts in Rose Tree County Park got their feet moving to support ...

More than a third of adults living with epilepsy reported being too physically disabled to hold a job in a new survey, and one in four said they did not take medication even though they had active ...

Sara Eve Fermin, a 33-year-old poet from Union City, New Jersey, remembers the first time she had a seizure. Since then, Fermin has tried 15 medications, visited four doctors and undergone two ...

Epilepsy can cause a number of health complications, especially if it goes untreated. The most serious of these complications is known as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). While uncommon, ...

Few medical conditions manifest themselves more profoundly than epilepsy. A condition that produces seizures that affect a number of mental and physical functions, epilepsy affects nearly 3 ...

Runners gathered for the 4th annual “Seize the Day – Amer’s Epilepsy Trail Run” at Mendon Ponds Park. The event featured a 5K ...

(BPT) – For anyone living with epilepsy, the daily challenges can be immense. Seizures can occur at any time, putting people living with epilepsy at risk for accidents and other health ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — November is Epilepsy Awareness Month; epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological condition in the United States. One in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their life ...

November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, a time set aside to educate others about the 174,000 Kentuckians living with the neurological disease that can cause seizures.One of those people is Kentucky ...

Statistically, if someone with epilepsy fails the first two medications, the chances of a third or fourth working drops to about 5%. But hope doesn’t let statistics get in the way.