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Life Out Here: Let me hear the cries
I’ll soon be leaving for a month of work in Argentina. My wife will be fine. She loves me, but she has her tremendously time-consuming job, her reading, her faith, her family and her friends. My son will be fine. He loves me, but he has his...
Tags: Seizures
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Strange causes of seizure disorders
Dear Pharmacist: My brother suddenly developed seizures, at age 28, with no history. I'd like to learn why he suddenly got this, since he was so healthy until then. Today, he's on six medications! — J.P., Sacramento Dear J.P.: I haven't covered...Tags: Vitamin D, Dietary Supplements, Stroke, Pharmaceuticals, Cerebral Palsy
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Girl refuses to let epilepsy slow her down
Epilepsy affects many Hoosier children–but new treatments are helping kids live life to the fullest. Paige Anderson looks like a normal 9-year-old girl. However, that was far from the case three years ago, when she suffered her first seizure....
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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Life Out Here: Beauty from ugly places
From trauma and terror good things, even remarkable things, sometimes come. Our older dog, Flynn, has epilepsy, as has been chronicled (way too often, critics would say) in this newspaper. It’s heartbreaking to see him frothing, banging and...
Tags: Seizures
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Waging heavy cloudiness
What do you expect from a rock star? I just closed the back cover of Neil Young's “Waging Heavy Peace,” his big anticipated memoir (of sorts), clocking in at 500 pages (75 shy of the rock star-memoir mountain peak established by Keith...
Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd (music group), Ronald Reagan, Buffalo Springfield (music group), IHOP Corporation, Apple iPod
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Indiana's first neuroscience center to open Monday
Indiana's first neuroscience center will soon open. A special ceremony was held Friday at the new Indiana University Health Neuroscience Center on West 16th Street. Beginning Monday, the center will treat Alzheimer's disease, brain tumors, epilepsy,...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Injuries and Wounds, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Brain
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Life Out Here: Becoming old men, together
“That one, he has an old soul,” the woman told us shortly after we arrived. “That’s OK, because we’re going to become old men together,” I thought. When we went to the breeder, she gave us the choice of two Australian...
Tags: Seizures
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IU School of Medicine scientist awarded $3 million grant
The U.S. Army is giving a $3 million research grant to an Indiana University School of Medicine scientist to develop a nasal spray antidote for suicidal thoughts among soldiers. Dr. Michael J. Kubek, Ph.D., who was awarded this grant, has been doing...
Tags: Research, Purdue University, U.S. Army, Education, Colleges and Universities
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My View: Swimming with my own Flippers
Lew Jenkins, former lightweight boxing champion of the world, had a color TV.
Lew was our neighbor and had a heart of gold, which meant he invited his good friend, my Pop, along with his brood of kids, to watch color television on Saturday evenings.
Lew...Tags: Jackie Gleason, Television Industry
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To treat son’s epilepsy, a father turns to medical marijuana
FrameworkJayden David, 5, suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome. Jayden takes a form of medical marijuana that is not psychoactive, so the sweet-tasting infusion he receives four times a day doesn't make him high.... -
On set with Eric McCormack of TNT’s “Perception”
Channel Guide MagazineBy Kate O'Hare In the feature film A Beautiful Mind, schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) goes against a doctor’s advice and decides to forgo his medication and use his intellect to deal with his symptoms, including vivid...
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