Epilepsy surgery can be a treatment option for some children who have seizures that are not well controlled by medicines. Find out more about epilepsy brain surgery for children, including benefits ...

Kami Kountcheva | Sharing tips and information on exam support for children with epilepsy, and how to manage stress around exams With school exams in full swing around the UK over the last month, many ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has estimated that 800,000 current and future recipients of personal independence payments (PIP) will lose on average £4,500 a year as a result of the ...

Pioneering research in DBS for epilepsy was conducted by Dr Francisco Velasco and his team in Mexico. They targeted several brain regions and found that patients responded very well to treatment, ...

Researchers from Canada have connected air pollution with an increase in the risk of new-onset epilepsy. In a recent paper in the journal Epilepsia, Tresah Anataya and colleagues estimated the link of ...

Healthcare professionals with expertise in epilepsy can now access and prescribe cenobamate more easily, after an update to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations.

A promising new medication, zorevunersen, is being trialled for Dravet syndrome across the UK and the US. Recent news reports have highlighted the positive effect the trial has had on two children ...

Kami Kountcheva | The International League Against Epilepsy has updated the way seizures are classified to help with clarity and make the terms easier for patients and caregivers. The International ...

March’s Epilepsy Star award has been given to the year 10 teachers at Tanfield School, in Durham. The school was nominated by Katy Parkin, who says her teachers have supported her throughout her ...

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’s (ABUHB) epilepsy open access service in Newport, Wales, has reopened after an unexpected closure in November last year.. The service closed without notice ...

An open letter by Carers UK, signed by 108 campaign groups and charities, including Epilepsy Action, is calling out “fundamentally unfair” government rules leaving thousands of carers with debts of up ...

Kami Kountcheva | Consultant neurosurgeon, Mr Jibril Osman Farah, who is delivering laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) treatment at the Walton Centre in Liverpool, answers our questions about ...