Widely used anticonvulsant drugs, including Pfizer's Neurontin and Novartis' Trileptal, may increase the risk of suicide, attempted suicide and violent death in patients taking them for the first time ...

Epilepsy and its treatment have proven to impair cognitive and behavioral functions. The impact on the former by epilepsy associated seizures, brain damage, and use of anticonvulsant drugs can result ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Two years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published ...

July 3 (UPI) --Anticonvulsant drugs that are commonly prescribed to treat back pain are not effective and might be harmful, according to a new study. Researchers led by the University of Sydney ...

Study finds some anticonvulsant drugs have a higher suicide risk than others. April 14, 2010— -- A class of drugs prescribed to treat conditions including migraines, chronic pain and bipolar ...

Sepsis is a serious medical condition that results from inflammation in the body and can cause fatal multi-organ dysfunction. The inflammation is usually triggered from a chromosomal protein called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The anticonvulsant drug lamotrigine appears to hinder the assembly of bacterial ribosomes, and may therefore ...

Research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institutes of Health, suggests that gamma vinyl-GABA (GVG)--a drug used to treat epilepsy--may prove to be an effective treatment ...

Use of the anticonvulsant drug valproate during pregnancy may pose a significantly great risk of birth defects than does use of other antiseizure medications. In the March 22 issue of Neurology, ...

Widely used anticonvulsant drugs, including Pfizer's Neurontin and Novartis' Trileptal, may increase the risk of suicide, attempted suicide and violent death in patients taking them for the first time ...

New Orleans -- Epilepsy and its treatment have proven to impair cognitive and behavioral functions. The impact on the former by epilepsy associated seizures, brain damage, and use of anticonvulsant ...