Three-quarters of epilepsy-related fatalities across Scotland could be prevented, a study has shown. Epilepsy is a common condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures. It is associated with
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to “deliver on his commitment” to ensure that children with severe epilepsy can access medical cannabis. Campaign group End Our Pain said families
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The Government has faced calls to save families “from the pain” of paying medicinal cannabis prescription costs. Medicinal cannabis was legalised in November 2018 after the then home secretary Sajid
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The mother of a desperately ill woman who sold her home to pay for her daughter’s medicinal cannabis has urged the Government to make it available on the NHS. Elaine
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Imports of medical cannabis to more than 40 children with severe epilepsy have been given a six-month reprieve – after being halted due to Brexit. The Department of Health and
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Additional “problems, mistakes and tragedies” may have occurred in the healthcare system, the authors of a damning review into the care of tens of thousands of people have said. The
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Families with severely epileptic children say they continue to be denied NHS prescriptions for medical cannabis despite a law change in 2018. Parents claim they are having to pay more
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A new review of previous studies into suicide worldwide has highlighted the effects of individual and environmental risk factors over a lifetime. A review of studies into suicide risk factors
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Employers are being urged to do more to help with people with epilepsy find work after a study suggested there was a “glaring” employment gap for those with the condition.
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Two cannabis-based medicines have been recommended for use on the NHS for the first time. Epidyolex has been approved for two rare types of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes, while
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