Epilepsy
07/22/2018
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By Michelle Simmons
Cannabis drug found to reduce risk of seizures by half in people with treatment-resistant epilepsy
A new study found that using cannabis, partnered with anti-epilepsy treatments, helped lower the risk of epileptic seizures of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome patients by almost 50 percent. The study was carried out by a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital who looked at the effectiveness and safety of cannabidiol, which is found in marijuana plants, in Lennox-Gastaut […]
06/26/2018
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By JD Heyes
FDA finally approves the USA’s first medicine derived from marijuana – is full decriminalization coming next?
In a move tens of millions of Americans never thought they’d live to see, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the country’s first medicine derived from marijuana, which has led supporters of recreational pot use to believe full decriminalization may be coming next. As reported by STAT, the approval for Epidiolex (cannabidiol) was […]
06/12/2018
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By Isabelle Z.
CBD confirmed to reduce seizures in patients with a severe form of epilepsy
Seizures are not only frightening for those who experience them and those who witness them; they can also be extremely dangerous when sufferers lose consciousness or control and fall down. Unfortunately, doctors have yet to find a way to stop them entirely. However, a new study is giving a lot of people hope after finding […]
03/08/2018
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By Ethan Huff
Cannabidiol found to dramatically decrease frequency of epilepsy seizures
Even as the pharmaceutical industry has continued to develop a steady stream of new drugs for treating epilepsy, not much has changed in terms of the overall number of drug-resistant cases of the neurological disease – suggesting that the drugs just aren’t working. This is why many people are now turning to all-natural cannabidiol instead. […]
06/08/2017
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By Amy Goodrich
Cannabis oil (CBD) CURES 12-year-old girl of life-threatening seizures
Cannabis oil (CBD) has saved a 12-year-old girl from having life-threatening seizures caused by a rare form of epilepsy. Earlier this year, Annalise Lujan was competing in a Tucson gymnastics competition when she started vomiting and lost all feeling in her legs. “By her fourth event, she just couldn’t move. She couldn’t walk. She just […]
04/27/2017
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By Tracey Watson
CBD oil helps autistic boy speak again
At first, when Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico survived a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma, his parents, Abiel and Gladys, were overjoyed that the two years of grueling surgery, radiation and chemotherapy treatments had worked, and their little boy was going to be okay. But while he was in the hospital, they started noticing […]
04/20/2017
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By Russel Davis
Cannabidiol (CBD) found to cut seizures in HALF among severe epilepsy patients, scientists find
Taking cannabis-based medicine may significantly reduce the number of seizures by half in children and adults with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), according to a recent study. Researchers said Lennox-Gastaut syndrome starts in childhood, and that patients with LGS experience multiple kinds of seizures: drop seizures and tonic-clonic seizures. During a drop […]
03/14/2016
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By cbdsnews
Virginia to Legalize Cannabis Oil for Epileptics
Legislature is one of the hardest ways for states to pass marijuana laws – many states start off with laws that only protect the patients from the potential of arrest or incarceration rather than actually providing a solution. Last year, one such state was Virginia as the passed a law that allowed epileptic patients to […]
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