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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transdermal CBD was well tolerated and safe among those with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, although no efficacy ...

A synthetic, non-intoxicating analogue of cannabidiol (CBD) is effective in treating seizures in rats, according to research by chemists at the University of California, Davis. The synthetic CBD ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - A pilot study done on more than a dozen dogs shows those treated with CBD had fewer seizures. Colorado State University conducted the study using 16 dogs with epilepsy. All of the ...

CBD from extracts of cannabis or hemp plants could be used to treat epilepsy and other conditions. UC Davis chemists have come up with a way to make a synthetic version of CBD and showed that it is as ...