Epilepsy Talk
Are You One of the 80% with Seizure Cycles?
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Seizure cycles occur in more than 80% of people with epilepsy, a retrospective analysis found.
“The patterns are important across the course of a day, but there are also patterns over weeks and months.”
BIG Pharma’s Outsized Profits
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Just how profitable is the pharmaceutical industry?
Are pharmaceutical companies earning too much?
Deciding whether pharmaceutical companies earn too much money is complicated.
Some of the most valuable innovations known to medicine have come from the pharmaceutical industry.
Yet, the cost of those innovations places new drugs out of reach for many patients and significantly burdens others.
Tags: BIG Pharma, Big pharma's outsized profits, price gouging, unaffordable drugs
In Memory of Connie Johnson…
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If it can be said, my mother-in law died a “good” death, out of pain and surrounded by those she loved and those who adored her.
A Caregiver’s Guide to Survival…
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It’s called “burn out.”
Because, let’s face it, being a caregiver is exhausting.
You may feel guilt, resentment, anger, anxiety or helplessness.
A chief of surgery offers insider tips to finding the right surgeon
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If you’ve been blessed with reasonably good health, you probably don’t have a surgeon’s number on speed dial.
Therefore, the bigger question is, in the unfortunate event that you need one, how do you find the best surgeon for your medical condition?
Tags: chief of surgery insider tips, doctors, interview, key credentials, references
Catamenial epilepsy — do you have it?
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Do you notice that your seizures worsen just before your period…or during the first few days…or at mid-cycle?
You could have “catamenial epilepsy,” or hormone sensitive seizures, a tendency for increased seizures related to your menstrual cycle.
The causes of catamenial epilepsy are not totally understood.
Tags: catamenial epilepsy, estrogen, hormone sensitive, menstrual cycle, progesterone
Marijuana’s time has come. ..
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“If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.” — William F. Buckley Jr.
Americans have spoken.
Congress listened.
Marijuana’s time has come.
Tags: marijuana pros and cons, medical, recreational
Ode to epilepsy…
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It strikes my head a hundred times…
It strikes my soul as many…
It strikes each thought I have…
Forecasts of epilepsy seizures could become a reality…
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Seizures are like a storm in the rain.
Not knowing when your next seizure will hit can be unnerving, at best.
Will a seizure happen five minutes from now, five weeks from now or five months from now?
It’s a crapshoot. Even with triggers and auras.
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