Drinking the "hot blood from the throat of a gladiator" is first recommended in the Book on Medicine in 40 C.E. and, over the next 500 years, Roman doctors experimented with exactly how to administer ...

The researchers said certain antiseizure medication could reduce the effectiveness of several kinds of hormonal birth control ...

The problem involves enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications, which can accelerate the breakdown of contraceptive hormones ...

Roughly one-third of people with epilepsy prescribed certain hormonal contraceptives were also prescribed anti-seizure ...

Genetic medicines and more selective small molecules are finally pushing the field toward new mechanisms — and potentially disease-modifying treatments.

A recent study from Johns Hopkins Medicine reveals that both the liver and brain contribute pathways to differing symptoms of the same rare inherited disorder.

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes seizures of many different types. Recent research from Japan has found that epileptic seizures can be more easily predicted by using an ...

If people with epilepsy could get “seizure warnings” akin to thunderstorm warnings, their neurological disorder might be less disruptive to their lives. That’s the goal driving work at the University ...

Migraines and epilepsy often go hand in hand. If you have epilepsy, you’re more than twice as likely to get migraines as someone who doesn’t. The reverse is true, too. People with migraines are more ...