News tagged with infantile
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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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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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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Where Surgery Was the Standard, Casting May Be the Future (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) may lead doctors to choose to tweak an old technology ? casting ? over using high-tech implantable devices for children ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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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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Housewife Remedy for Scurvy Preceded Medical Discovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 100-page handwritten book by Mrs. Ebot Mitchell written in 1707 on household remedies contains among other things a recipe to treat scurvy. The recipe containing extracts from plants, orange ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 11, 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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