A new awareness campaign, launched this week, is shining a light on the discrimination people with epilepsy often face around friendships, dating and work. Epilepsy Action’s ‘If I told you…’ campaign ...

Epilepsy Action has been re-certified with the PIF TICK, the UK’s only assessed quality mark for print and online health and care information, awarded by the Patient Information Forum. The PIF TICK ...

Epilepsy surgery can be an option for children who have seizures that are not controlled with medicines Many children who have surgery will stop having seizures or have fewer of them. This can lead to ...

With school exams in full swing around the UK over the last month, many children could be finding this a stressful time. Stress and epilepsy are linked for many people and could be impacting children ...

Professional rugby union player Tommy Freeman is presenting Epilepsy Action’ BBC Radio 4 Appeal, airing today (25 May). The Radio 4 Appeal is a weekly programme which champions the work of a charity ...

Researchers from Canada have connected air pollution with an increase in the risk of new-onset epilepsy. In a recent paper in the journal Epilepsia, Tresah Anataya and colleagues estimated the link of ...

Healthcare professionals with expertise in epilepsy can now access and prescribe cenobamate more easily, after an update to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations.

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has updated the way it classifies epileptic seizures in a new paper published in the journal Epilepsia. The new classifications include four classes ...

Are you ready for the fastest and flattest ever Bradford 10k? Who will beat our 12-year strong race record? With only 210 feet of elevation across the whole course, we are hoping to see lots of new ...

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’s (ABUHB) epilepsy open access service in Newport, Wales, has reopened after an unexpected closure in November last year. The service closed without notice ...

An open letter by Carers UK, signed by 108 campaign groups and charities, including Epilepsy Action, is calling out “fundamentally unfair” government rules leaving thousands of carers with debts of up ...

Laser interstitial thermal therapy – known as LITT – is a treatment for epilepsy that uses heat from a laser beam to destroy damaged areas of the brain that cause seizures. This treatment is also ...