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View Post: Multiple sclerosis, epilepsy don't raise significant pregnancy ...
18 Nov 2009 by insciences  
The work, based on a national patient database, represents the largest study to date of pregnant women with MS or epilepsy. It shows that women with the disorders face only a slightly elevated risk of abnormal fetal growth rate and ...
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View Post: Epilepsy, the Origin of Islam - Atheist Nexus
18 Nov 2009
Has a major branch of history been determined by one man's bout with epilepsy? I think so! Epilepsy Toronto has, on its web page, a list of famous people who have had epilepsy. The idea of the list is that epilepsy doesn't need to stand ...
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View Post: Congress To FDA: Review Generic Epilepsy Meds // Pharmalot
17 Nov 2009 by Ed Silverman  
Those who take meds to cope with epilepsy will be interested to know that Congress has asked the FDA to examine epileptic drugs the agency considers to be therapeutically equivalent to other products. The disclosure was made in a ...
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View Post: PharmaGossip: Report: Company-funded studies of Pfizer epilepsy ...
11 Nov 2009 by insider  
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed. ...
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View Post: Epilepsy awareness important
Aiken Standard
Aiken, SC ...
View Blog: The cause of epilepsy is unknown in seven out of 10 people. In others, the cause can be head injuries or lack of oxygen during birth, tumors, genetic conditions, exposure to toxins, problems in brain development and infections.

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View Post: Getting serious about epilepsy
5 Nov 2009
As president of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy, he has seen first-hand the widespread "catastrophic" fallout from the disease, and wonders whether research funders and the public are responding to how serious it is for one in ...
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View Post: National Epilepsy Awareness Month
9 Nov 2009 by Stephanie Thigpen  
According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, epileptic seizures can include any number of things, such as uncontrolled movements like blinking or jerking, or sudden, inexplicable strong emotions, such as fear. ...
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