Epilepsy Society has been campaigning for many years to raise awareness of the risks many epilepsy drugs pose to babies during pregnancy. Public Health Scotland (PHS) has released a new report ...

Elijah was a passionate and kind-hearted young man, whose life was tragically cut short on Father's Day this year (2024). This is the story of how his local community came together, to fill the void ...

Changes in hormone levels means that epilepsy treatment may need to change through a woman’s life. In this section, when we refer to women, this also includes girls of childbearing age. Epilepsy can ...

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GPs estimate they spend 10-20% of their time on admin, as well as tasks generated by issues with primary and secondary care communication. The Health and Social Care Secretary announced that the ...

There are more than 600,000 people in the UK with epilepsy, that’s more than 1 in 100 of us. For one third, their seizures do not respond to available drugs and they live with ongoing seizures. This ...

Join our campaign to end medication shortages by asking your MP to write to Health Minister Karin Smyth. Our templated letter is easy to use and will also find your constituency MP according to your ...

As research develops, we are learning more about our genes, and how they affect our chances of developing different medical conditions and how we respond to medication. Researchers now believe that ...

As Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched his Red Tape Challenge to free up more GP time for patients, the Epilepsy Society issued a sharp reminder that resolving medication shortages would also ...

There are several different types of seizures, and they can happen for many different reasons. Epilepsy and epileptic seizures are explained below. Seizures that are not due to epilepsy are sometimes ...

Our step-by-step guide to the recovery position shows you how to help someone recover after a tonic clonic seizure. These steps should be followed once the shaking has stopped. We send monthly ...