Epilepsy drugs can spark serious skin disorders

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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...