Financial advice call over cancer
A charity calls for all cancer sufferers to be given financial advice when diagnosed with the disease, as it says people are often unprepared for the cost. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

The effect of levetiracetam on focal nocturnal epileptiform activity during sleep - A placebo-controlled double-blind cross-over study.
This study was designed to assess AED effect in a placebo-controlled double-blind cross-over study. Levetiracetam (LEV) was chosen based on clinical evidence. Eighteen patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The mean spike index at baseline was 56, falling to a mean of 37 at the end of the LEV treatment period. Assessed with a 2-way ANOVA, there is a significant treatment effect (plt;0.0002). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first placebo-controlled double-blind cross-over study for any AED in patients with ESES. The effect of LEV is comparable with its effect in treatment of epileptic seizures. PMID: 22494796 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Please have a look at this new site driven by MedWorm: a href=http://www.thebreastcancerdaily.com/ target=_blankThe Breast Cancer Daily/a/p/div