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The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that it has awarded $250,000 in funding at their 2025 Shark Tank Competition on ...
Spread awareness, educate, and organize events with help from our Epilepsy Awareness Toolkit. Start helping the general public and those living with epilepsy.
The Seizure Recognition and First Aid certification training provides information to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence in recognizing seizures and safely administering seizure first aid.
Often times, living with epilepsy means not only wading through seizures, various drug treatments and side effects, but other medical and psychiatric condition as well. Some of the most frequent ...
This support group is for those living with epilepsy between the ages of 18 and 35 to meet others like them, make connections, and find support.
The bill safeguards physician-directed care in a school setting and helps school personnel manage students living with ...
I had temporal lobe epilepsy from infancy until the age of 12. My seizures began just before I turned one, then stopped for about four years. But when I was five, they returned with a vengeance. At ...
I was diagnosed with a seizure disorder before I was even born. There’s a scary story behind that, and after I arrived, it was followed by countless invasive overnight stays and day trips to the ...
The Epilepsy Foundation Middle Tennessee provides programs and services that support people and families impacted by epilepsy. With the strength of a national organization and network of epilepsy ...
Did Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) have epilepsy? Joseph Sirven, MD, Mayo Clinic, and his colleagues recently published a study that indicates that the Pope did indeed have epilepsy. The goal of the study, ...
As woman with epilepsy, you likely have concerns about your health that men don’t. For example, your hormones and your period (menstrual cycle) may be affecting your seizures. Or, you be concerned ...