New drugs show promise for preventing 'absence seizures' in children

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

A team led by a University of British Columbia professor has developed a new class of drugs that completely suppress absence seizures – a brief, sudden loss of consciousness – in rats, and which are now being tested in humans.

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