Almost everyone has been touched by, or knows someone, with epilepsy. This complex, serious neurological disorder affects nearly 3 million adults in the U.S., or around 1% of the population — causing ...

Dogs at metro Atlanta's Canine Assistants are inspiring research into a device that can alert to oncoming epileptic seizures. Researchers looked at how dogs were able to smell oncoming seizures to ...

A team led by the UAB Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) has for the first time identified the mechanism behind a potentially fatal type of epilepsy, a symptom of mitochondrial diseases. The ...

Trevor Harney is only 14 years old, but that doesn’t stop from doing farm chores every morning before he heads to classes at Splendora Junior High. He feeds the dogs, cats and livestock. “We’ve got ...

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is in the same botanical family as ginger (Zingiberaceae). The rhizome is used as a coloring agent and a spice in such foods as curries, and as a medicinal agent in India and ...