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Epilepsy

June 2024

  • Oran smiling, wearing a mud-covered helmet.

    UK boy has brain implant fitted to control epilepsy seizures in world first

    Oran Knowlson, who could suffer hundreds of seizures a day, had neurostimulator fitted at Great Ormond Street

May 2024

  • A female pharmacist at work: she is seen in white overalls stacking a set of long shelves filled with medicines

    Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn

    Survey has revealed challenges faced by pharmacists and risk of harm to patients as key drugs are unavailable

April 2024

  • The message 'end epilepsy stigma' is seen written on seven hands joined together

    A common condition
    The ‘epilepsy warriors’ breaking down the barriers in Cameroon

    Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged

March 2024

  • Jay Bothroyd in action during his solitary England appearance against France in November 2010

    Jay Bothroyd reveals he hid epilepsy and seizures during football career

    Former Wolves and Cardiff forward Jay Bothroyd has revealed some of the risks he took during his career while hiding epilepsy

February 2024

  • Sodium valproate (Epilim) medication.

    Women must be told of sodium valproate risk to unborn babies

  • Janet Williams (left) and Emma Murphy, who founded In-Fact to support other parents of children affected by sodium valproate

    The mothers fighting a scandal bigger than thalidomide: ‘We were told the medication was safe’

January 2024

  • Pharmacist at work

    NHS drug shortages are partly a political failure

  • A male holding a pill bottle pouring medication into his hand

    ‘The worst I’ve known it’: the struggle to get vital medicines in the UK

December 2023

  • Angharad Elliott wearing a black sleeveless dress, and sitting in a cream armchair in a living room

    Experience
    Experience: I fell off a 40ft cliff

    My mum saw me from above, lying in a pool of water, a deep shade of crimson lapping around my ears

October 2023

  • ‘It’s disconcerting to lose that many minutes of your life’… Larissa Hurt receiving an EEG in 2020.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: the sixth-form seizure that forced me to let go of stress for ever

    My diagnosis meant I couldn’t drive, drink much or stay up late. A disaster for a 17-year-old. But it also showed me what was most important

September 2023

  • Busy restaurants and cafes in Old Compton Street, Soho.

    Don’t define us by our health conditions

    Letter: Labels are misunderstood and do little to diminish stigma, writes Chris Bennett

June 2023

  • Brain scans

    Two epilepsy patients’ seizures greatly reduced in stem cell therapy trial

    Early results show promise in trial involving injection of lab-grown inhibitory neurons into brain

May 2023

  • Gaia Pope

    Gaia Pope’s family angry at lack of police and health reforms a year after inquest

    Relatives of Dorset teenager say some organisations have only made minor tweaks after coroner’s findings

March 2023

  • Matt Gunn

    Morrisons fined £3.5m after death of employee with epilepsy

  • Jennifer Preston

    Other lives
    Jennifer Preston obituary

January 2023

  • Leah and Troy Van Keogh, with their 11-year-old son, Marley

    Disabled boy loses overnight NHS care because parents cannot afford heating

    Family unable to afford high energy bills left to provide 24-hour care after Welsh health board ‘stops guaranteeing nursing package’

October 2022

  • The brain of a rat in which a fluorescent protein has been used to highlight transplanted human brain cells. Photograph: Sergiu Pasca/Stanford University/AFP

    Science Weekly
    Is it ethical to put human brain cells in a rat? – podcast

    Researchers have transplanted human neurons into the brains of rats. Ian Sample speaks to the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu about how they managed it and how we decide where to draw the line in such an ethically complex field of science
  • A brain scan of a person with epilepsy.

    NHS to offer epilepsy patients new form of laser surgery

    Move will help up to 150 patients a year whose condition has not responded positively to anti-seizure drugs
  • A transplanted human organoid labelled with a fluorescent protein in a section of a rat brain.

    Human neurons transplanted into rats to help study brain disorders

    Groundbreaking research could throw light on how cells from patients with neuropsychiatric disorders malfunction

July 2022

  • Iain Braid carves a piece of wood in his garden.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was in a chaotic place after an MS diagnosis and escaped into woodcarving

    I was forced to take early retirement and was also struggling to deal with grief, but immersing myself in something creative in a beautiful woodland setting turned my life around
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