seizures

Little Rock, Ark. - Supporters of a medical marijuana proposal in Arkansas have launched a television ad touting the November ballot measure as a way to help children with seizures. Informing Arkansas on Friday began airing the ad for the proposed constitutional amendment, which would allow...

Melbourne - A cannabis pill administered to adults with epilepsy could reduce seizures, Australian researchers said on Wednesday. The drug is the subject of a world-first clinical trial in Australia and New Zealand led by Melbourne researchers. Terry O'Brien, a neurologist at the Royal...

Melbourne - A cannabis pill administered to adults with epilepsy could reduce seizures, Australian researchers said on Wednesday. The drug is the subject of a world-first clinical trial in Australia and New Zealand led by Melbourne researchers. Terry O'Brien, a neurologist at the Royal...

Charlotte Figi had her first seizure when she was three months old. It began after a warm bath, a common precursor to the first seizures in Dravet Syndrome. Within a couple of years, she was experiencing over 300 spontaneous grand mal seizures a week. You may have heard of Charlotte's story...

Charlotte Figi had her first seizure when she was three months old. It began after a warm bath, a common precursor to the first seizures in Dravet Syndrome. Within a couple of years, she was experiencing over 300 spontaneous grand mal seizures a week. You may have heard of Charlotte's story...

Leander, Texas - Kenza Hocini, 2, has more than a 100 seizures a day. The 24-pound girl is confined to a wheelchair because she can't stand, sit or do anything by herself. She can't even eat on her own. "I thought she was having 20 to 30 seizures a day, we did her EEG three weeks ago and...

Leander, Texas - Kenza Hocini, 2, has more than a 100 seizures a day. The 24-pound girl is confined to a wheelchair because she can't stand, sit or do anything by herself. She can't even eat on her own. "I thought she was having 20 to 30 seizures a day, we did her EEG three weeks ago and...

A little girl with a serious medical condition is making amazing progress after using what many believe is a breakthrough treatment option. As a last resort, her family tried a non-euphoric strain of medical marijuana for their 10-year-old daughter's relentless seizures. And it worked. A...

A little girl with a serious medical condition is making amazing progress after using what many believe is a breakthrough treatment option. As a last resort, her family tried a non-euphoric strain of medical marijuana for their 10-year-old daughter's relentless seizures. And it worked. A...

A Summerland family is celebrating a victory that will allow their child to legally get the cannabis oil that calms her seizures. Health Canada has granted an exemption that allows four-year-old Kyla Williams and others like her to access the medicine, as long as they have a letter from the...

A Summerland family is celebrating a victory that will allow their child to legally get the cannabis oil that calms her seizures. Health Canada has granted an exemption that allows four-year-old Kyla Williams and others like her to access the medicine, as long as they have a letter from the...

The youngsters all have a rare and serious form of epilepsy and sufferer severe seizures up to 80 times a day. The fits mean sufferers are unable to stop themselves falling to the ground. Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is taking part in a global trial involving a total of 225...

Dingmans Ferry - When Brenden Doran of Dingmans Ferry was only three weeks old, he got very sick. When he threw up, the contents of his stomach flew five feet from his bassinet. He was losing weight. Doctors prescribed medicine but it didn't work. It took weeks before they identified the...

Dingmans Ferry - When Brenden Doran of Dingmans Ferry was only three weeks old, he got very sick. When he threw up, the contents of his stomach flew five feet from his bassinet. He was losing weight. Doctors prescribed medicine but it didn't work. It took weeks before they identified the...

A Toronto mother whose son suffers from chronic seizures due to a rare genetic condition is frustrated that some nurses in Toronto hospitals have refused to administer cannabis oil, which she says brings him relief. Maria Niembro, mother of 11-year-old Francesco, told CBC's Metro Morning on...

A Toronto mother whose son suffers from chronic seizures due to a rare genetic condition is frustrated that some nurses in Toronto hospitals have refused to administer cannabis oil, which she says brings him relief. Maria Niembro, mother of 11-year-old Francesco, told CBC's Metro Morning on...

Shalimar, Fla. - It's called CBD Oil: short for Cannabidiol. And it was specially delivered this week to a little boy, JJ, short for Jonathan Junior. The parents of the nine year-old were presented with the first-ever delivery of cannabis oil in Northwest Florida. Their son was diagnosed with...

Shalimar, Fla. - It's called CBD Oil: short for Cannabidiol. And it was specially delivered this week to a little boy, JJ, short for Jonathan Junior. The parents of the nine year-old were presented with the first-ever delivery of cannabis oil in Northwest Florida. Their son was diagnosed with...

New Smyrna Beach, Fla. - The last 11-months have been very hard for Amanda Gammisch. First came the devastating diagnosis: stage 3 brain cancer and a five year life expectancy. Next came the seizures, and after two brain surgeries which opened up her skull, the seizures continue. Now, she has...

Tampa - It's been two years since Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act into law, and patients are just now receiving the first medical marijuana doses. One of those medical marijuana prescriptions was delivered Monday to Richard Murphy, a Bay Area man who suffers...