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Scientific teams find genetic link to epilepsy drug reaction
IRISH AND British scientists have found a way to warn if a patient will react badly to a medicine used in the treatment of epilepsy. In rare cases the drug can cause severe breakdown of the skin and...
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Irish scientists find link between epilepsy and schizophrenia
IRISH experts have taken the first step towards a potential treatment for schizophrenia after uncovering a close link between the condition and epilepsy. “In future, this may inform on potential...
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‘Patients will be sent abroad unless epilepsy units open’
Consultant neurologist and director of the epilepsy programme at Beaumont Hospital, Professor Norman Delanty, said it was unacceptable that close to 200 patients, some of whom are at risk of death, are...
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‘Open the epilepsy units without delay’: Daniel Costello
The HSE’s failure to open two hospital epilepsy monitoring units (EMU) critical to the treatment of people with severe epilepsy made national headlines this week. Dr Daniel Costello, consultant...
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New law ‘no threat’ to epilepsy patients’ health
Generic medicines would only be allowed to be supplied to patients in cases where they provided the same quality and safety as the drugs they were substituting, said junior health minister Alex White....
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Removal of unit disaster for epilepsy sufferers
As someone who has successfully undergone such surgery in 1992 in Beaumont after spending time in the now removed two-bed assessment unit in Beaumont Hospital, the loss of the assessment facility in...
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Epilepsy unit at CUH idle for year despite waiting list
The epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) failed to open in 2013, despite a commitment from the HSE that it would open in the third quarter. The HSE conceded yesterday that...
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Beaumont epilepsy unit opens but Cork sister site lies idle
Health Minister James Reilly yesterday opened the €700,000 state-of-the-art unit in Dublin, promising that it will make a life-changing difference to those affected by the brain condition. The facility...
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