Seizure medication linked to skin disease seizure medication linked t - Novartis has issued new warnings for its antiepilepsy drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) that highlight the drug’s serious skin-related side-effects such...

Phenobarbital: - If it's good enough for our dogs - Phenobarbital, the world's oldest epilepsy drug, has fallen out of favour in the last decade or so. In the UK doctors have been forbidden to prescrib...

Lamotrigine - Our Drug of the Month was prompted by one of our readers. After reading our epilepsy cover story (WDDTY Vol 6 no 8), she wondered whether she could sw...

Septrin - the risks - Q:I have heard of a horrendous case of Septrin causing the most severe side effects in a penicillin allergic subject. I understand that this drug is...

The epilepsy newcomer - Lamotrigine (marketed as Lamictal) is one of the new-generation antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) brought in as an alternative to the traditionally prescribe...

More harm from epilepsy medication - New studies suggest that many of the available antiepileptic drugs, especially the older ones, can have other negative effects besides worsening seizu...

Drugs for epilepsy - Q:I first had an epileptic seizure 32 years ago, and for the following 10 years had about two grandmal seizures a year. Following the first episode...

Herbs for skin problems - Eczema, now on the increase among young children, is a worry to mothers, not least because the 'cure' which usually contains steroids is often far wor...