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HOUSTON - One in three people with epilepsy cannot control their seizures with medication. Tiffany Penn, a mother of three, was one of them. I have spoken with all of them and said seizures look scary but they don't have to be if you know what to do, said Penn. Seizures can have devastating effects such as brain damage. They can even cause death. Like many with Epilepsy, Tiffany was having about three grand mal seizures a day when her medication became ineffective. She turned to Clear Lake-based company, Cyberonics, the developer of the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Therapy system, which is Food and Drug Administration-approved for the treatment of epilepsy. The VNS device is inserted like a pacemaker. It attacks the source of seizures from the inside by swiping a magnet on the outside of the body. What VNS does is provide very small electrical pulses and works on electricity within the central nervous system, Rohan Hoare, COO of Cyberonics said. Hoare said these can work on patients who have difficulty controlling seizures with medicine. Penn has had one for ten years, so doctors are confident this is an appropriate, yet not well-known form of therapy. Original post: Epilepsy … Continue reading →

The Mellos family. From left: Calista, Sherri, Kaila and Peter Mellos. When Calista Mellos was born 10 years ago, her parents, Sherri and Peter Mellos, knew something was wrong. Unlike the typical noisy baby, Calista didn't cry when she was hungry. She slept. "We had to really work hard to wake her up," said Sherri Mellos. "We'd have to take all of her clothes off, put a fan on her, put cold washcloths on her, and constantly rub her feet and face to keep her awake long enough to eat." As she grew into a toddler, Calista was slow to sit, to walk, and talk, and received therapy. At 4, she had her first grand mal seizure. Most mysteriously, Callista would often fall down events called "drop attacks." Calista was diagnosed with epilepsy and put on medications. But the seizures and falls continued. Now theres new hope for this San Diego family, delivered through the fast-growing science of genomics. Through a groundbreaking program at the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, researchers sequenced and compared the genomes of Calista, her parents and her sister, Kaila. Researchers discovered that Calista has a mutation causing a previously unknown form of epilepsy. … Continue reading →