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PEOPLE with a rare seizure-causing disorder will now be able to access a cannabis-based medicine on the NHS for the first time. NHS England announced doctors would be able to prescribe Epidyolex to ...

The NHS must provide free dental repairs for people who damage their teeth as a result of epileptic seizures, charity campaigners have urged. Half of those who have suffered dental injuries from an ...

The chronic brain disease that causes seizures currently affects around 600,000 people living in the UK The NHS has announced that it will be rolling out a new laser beam therapy this June to help ...

Laura Diable, 39, one of the first patients to receive the 'cutting edge' procedure reveals the startling impact it has had on her life “GAME-CHANGING” laser therapy to prevent epileptic seizures will ...

A teenager is facing a return of life-threatening epileptic seizures within weeks after the NHS refused to fund his cannabis drug. Four years after a historic campaign to have medicinal cannabis ...

A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with ...

Epileptic patients will soon be treated with a new 'game-changing' laser beam therapy on the NHS. Known as Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT), the treatment uses fibre-optic lasers to target ...

Over 10 million people with epilepsy qualify as surgical candidates worldwide, with 1.4 million new potential surgical ...

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The introduction of a stricter approval process for prescribing an anti-seizure drug that can cause birth defects when taken ...

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