Miles Lewis had his first seizure at 4 years old. He was diagnosed with epilepsy after those seizures kept happening He was put on medication, but eventually a team of doctors at Johns Hopkins All ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide, affecting around 50 million people, yet in South Africa it remains underdiagnosed, misunderstood and severely stigmatised. Seeing a ...

High blood pressure and diabetes are often called "silent" conditions for a reason. Many people live with them for years without obvious symptoms, assuming everything is under control. But when blood ...

Aayesha Soni is the first South African woman to receive international training as an epileptologist for adult patients. One of only a handful of such specialists in Africa, she treats patients with ...

While physicians and scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease involves the buildup of toxic protein fragments in the brain, they have struggled to understand how these harmful fragments are ...

A medication that has been prescribed in the U.S. for decades may be able to stop the earliest steps of Alzheimer’s disease— but only if it is taken long before symptoms appear, according to new ...