Specialist Updates Neurology

Call for urgent revamp to PBS rules on antiepileptics

1st July 2019
Two leading Australian seizure experts are calling on the Department of Health to urgently revise outdated prescribing…
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Epilepsy drugs
Specialist Updates Neurology

Deep electrodes may outperform subdural grids in epilepsy localisation

7th March 2019
Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) appears to be more versatile and have better procedural morbidity than subdural…
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Procedures are used to identify the source of seizures in epilepsy
Pharmacy News

One in ten epilepsy patients injured during a seizure each year

21st February 2019
People with epilepsy have a 10% per annum chance of sustaining an injury while having a seizure, an Australian study shows. …
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Epilepsy
Pharmacy News

Medical cannabis 'safe' for severe childhood epilepsy

15th August 2018
Almost all of the first 40 children given cannabidiol for severe epilepsy in Australia had an adverse event within three…
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cannabis oil
Pharmacy News

Ilicit cannabis good for childhood epilepsy

9th July 2018
Australian parents who turn to medicinal cannabis to treat their children with epilepsy overwhelmingly consider the extracts…
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cannabis oil
Pharmacy News

Cannabis oil for epilepsy – what you need to know

27th June 2018
Epilepsy drugs don’t work well, or at all, for about one-third of people with the condition. Unfortunately, these hard-to…
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cannabis oil
6Minutes News

Cannabis oil for epilepsy – what you need to know

26th June 2018
Epilepsy drugs don’t work well, or at all, for about one-third of people with the condition. Unfortunately, these hard-to…
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cannabis oil