CHICAGO, March 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CeCe Cares Pediatric Epilepsy Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to provide comfort to children diagnosed with Pediatric Epilepsy, help families ...

In the pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit (PEMU) of a large midwestern hospital, patient care is optimized through the design of the unit, nurse and family education, communication, and medication ...

The National Association of Epilepsy Centers has designated El Paso Children’s Hospital as a Level 3 Pediatric Epilepsy ...

ROYAL OAK -- Beaumont Children's Hospital expanded its neuroscience services Jan. 7 with a Pediatric Epilepsy Clinic, offering treatment options and services for infants, children and teens with ...

Physicians should proactively ask patients what alternative therapies, if any, they are using. Alternative medicine is commonly used by the families of children with epilepsy, but patients often do ...

“Too many neurologists still think of dietary therapy as ‘too hard,’ even for kids with intractable epilepsy,” says Elizabeth Thiele, MD, Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Mass General.

UAB Department of Neurosurgery Professor and Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery Director Jeffrey Blount, M.D., M.P.H., and Professor and Neurosurgery Residency Program Director Curtis Rozzelle, M.D., ...

Paediatric brain tumours often cause epileptic seizures that are resistant to therapies. A new article in Nature Medicine shows that BRAF-V600E — an oncogenic mutation that is often found in melanomas ...

For pediatric patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG-RFTC) is safe, with favorable outcomes for most patients, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A new specialty license plate is now available to residents of Alabama who want to show their support of children with pediatric epilepsy. The Help End Epilepsy tag is a ...

Nursing care in the PEMU focuses on the needs of the patients and is based on current research. Because the PEMU is part of the general pediatric unit and the PEMU nurses also serve the pediatric ...