In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for free. Then ...

Regents Professor D. Samba Reddy leads a team of pharmacology researchers that has made breakthrough discoveries in using CBD to treat and prevent hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy. The emerging field ...

It can start with a vacant stare, what appear to be muscle twitches or a full-blown seizure. But no matter how it begins, any time a child is diagnosed with epilepsy is often a frightening time for ...

In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. Then a fellow patient at a Denver neurologist’s office mentioned something that ...

Kids with catastrophic epilepsy can experience numerous weekly, or even daily seizures -- despite taking multiple medications to treat their epilepsy. And parents whose children have frequent, ...

Artisanal (non-pharmaceutical) cannabidiol (CBD) products have become popular in recent years for their apparent therapeutic effects. CBD — a naturally occurring compound of the cannabis plant legally ...

Share on Pinterest CBD may not only help to reduce seizure-related symptoms in people with epilepsy, research shows. Rowena Naylor/Stocksy United Cannabidiol (CBD) has been approved for use in the ...

One would be forgiven for assuming that there is nothing that CBD cannot fix. Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound found in the cannabis plant, is regularly extolled as a magical cure-all, touted to be able ...

Lisa Smith’s 14-year-old daughter, Haley, had run out of options. She was having roughly two dozen seizures a day and had tried “17 or 18” different pharmaceutical regimens, different diets, and an ...

In 2013, Tonya Taylor says, she was suicidal because her epileptic seizures kept coming even though she was taking a long list of medications. Then a fellow patient at a Denver neurologist’s office ...

The nation's top drug regulator has officially changed how it regulates CBD, a marijuana compound that's in a new epilepsy drug called Epidiolex. This is the first time in 46 years that the Drug ...

Cannabidiol (CBD), purchased online, has been linked to early puberty in a very young child with severe intractable epilepsy. The case report describes the unusual instance of a 2-year-old boy with ...