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In 2013, LaDonna and Luther Jenkins of Southfield, were joyful at the birth of their beautiful first-born daughter Lauren. Their baby girl was healthy and thriving. When Lauren was about 17-months-old, however, there were a few signs that caused some concerns. “Lauren started to have staring spells and it advanced to involuntary twitching. She also […]

Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Michigan Pediatric Neurosurgeon Sandeep Sood, M.D., developed minimally-invasive endoscopic surgery, demonstrated efficacy in treating intractable epileptic seizures in children. After eight years of study, a Children’s Hospital of Michigan neurosurgeon and his colleagues are using an endoscope to perform surgical procedures to help control intractable epileptic seizures in pediatric […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epilepsy is one of the most common conditions affecting the brain. When counting both children and adults in the United States: About 5.1 million people in the United States have a history of epilepsy. About 2.9 million people in the United States have active epilepsy. Ten percent […]

A recently published clinical study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has answered an urgent question that long puzzled ER pediatricians: Is the drug lorazepam really safer and more effective than diazepam – the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medication as first line therapy most often used by emergency room doctors to control […]

Every baby cries. But Akram and Joumana Khalil of Dearborn, knew something was not quite right when their baby boy Hussein had screaming episodes that would not go away. At just three weeks of age, the Khalil family decided to seek treatment with experts at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, where doctors diagnosed him with […]