News tagged with infantile seizures
High-fat ketogenic diet effectively treats persistent childhood seizures
The high-fat ketogenic diet can dramatically reduce or completely eliminate debilitating seizures in most children with infantile spasms, whose seizures persist despite medication, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's ...
May 17, 2010 |
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FDA approves first drug for infantile spasms
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat infantile spasms, a rare disorder that can cause hundreds of seizures per day in children less than a year old.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Findings in epilepsy gene in animals may guide treatment directions for infants
Researchers studying a difficult-to-treat form of childhood epilepsy called infantile spasms have developed a line of mice that experiences seizures with features closely resembling those occurring in patients with infantile ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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US neurologists agree on protocols for treatment of infantile spasms
Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS). The goal of the ISWG is to improve patient outcomes ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 03, 2010 |
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New publications examine treatment outcomes for infantile hemangiomas
In an ongoing effort to find better and safer treatment for complicated infantile hemangiomas, researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, report outcomes on two treatment options. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 19, 2010 |
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High-fat ketogenic diet to control seizures is safe over long term
Current and former patients treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet to control multiple, daily and severe seizures can be reassured by the news that not only is the diet effective, but it also appears to have no long-lasting ...
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Operation can help kids with epilepsy
Just a few months ago, 2-year-old Jesse Eaton was having up to 20 epileptic seizures a day. His thin arms flung out while his knees pulled up and his body bent forward like a jackknife.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Transplanted human stem cells prolong survival in mouse model of rare brain disease
A new study finds substantial improvement in a mouse model of a rare, hereditary neurodegenerative disease after transplantation of normal human neural stem cells. The research findings, published by Cell Press in the September ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Single gene mutation responsible for 'catastrophic epilepsy'
Catastrophic epilepsy - characterized by severe muscle spasms, persistent seizures, mental retardation and sometimes autism - results from a mutation in a single gene, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Rare disease claims children early
Soon after her second son was born in September 2006, Carolina Alfaro noticed he had trouble nursing. In the following months, Diego was unable to roll over or lift his head when he was laid on a blanket.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 29, 2009 |
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Controversial Medication May Decrease Spasms for Infants With Epilepsy
The antiepileptic drug vigabatrin (VGB) has been shown to be one of the best treatments against a special form of epilepsy in infants, called infantile spasm. However, its use has been limited in many countries because it ...
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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The first autism disease genes
The autistic disorder was first described, more than sixty years ago, by Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA), who created the new label 'early infantile autism'. At the same time an Austrian scientist, Dr. ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Gene therapy slows progression of fatal neurodegenerative disease in children
Gene therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow significantly the rate of neurologic decline in treated children, according to a paper ...
May 13, 2008 |
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