New medication offers hope to patients with frequent, uncontrollable seizures
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
A new type of anti-epilepsy medication that selectively targets proteins in the brain that control excitability may significantly reduce seizure frequency in people whose recurrent seizures have been resistant to even the latest medications, new research suggests.
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