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Can a high fat diet keep seizures under control for people with epilepsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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The ketogenic diet is a very high fat and very low carbohydrate diet that helps both children and adults with epilepsy control their seizures, and the diet is now celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic …
The common condition epilepsy can be helped with a special diet, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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It’s the 100th anniversary of the so-called ‘ketogenic’ diet, which helps to control epilepsy in children and adults, and can even allow some of them to stop taking medications for the condition. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic diet expert …
The ketogenic diet is turning 100, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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The ketogenic diet, which relies on fats and proteins as energy sources and avoids carbohydrates, actually began 100 years ago as a means to control epilepsy in both adults and children and was also used for a host of other …
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Clinicians seem to be reluctant to engage in end of life discussions, Elizabeth Tracey reports
How many people must participate in trials of new therapeutics before they are approved by the FDA? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Federal regulations require that clinical trial results are posted, but how many are? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Clinical trial results are required by federal law to be posted within two years of a trial’s conclusion, with data available on a website called ClinicalTrials.gov. A recent study looked at how often researchers are complying. William Nelson, director of …