Epilepsy

The New York Times / By TACEY RYCHTER / FEB. 11, 2018 BRISBANE, Australia — Lindsay Carter had his first violent seizure at 14. He toppled face first onto a tiled floor in […]

The Salt Lake Tribune / June 26 2017 Utah’s sick and afflicted are hoping for a little charity from their friends and neighbors in the form of safe and legal […]

 Irish neurologists are to draw up guidelines on the safe use of medicinal cannabis for patients with epilepsy. An expert group made up of consultant neurologists is to begin drawing […]

Jackson Leyden had always been a healthy kid; he practiced taekwondo, and he played lacrosse and baseball. But in 2011, a few months after his eighth birthday, he began having […]

Playing the lead in the Chicago cast of “Hamilton” is the role of a lifetime for Miguel Cervantes — but the story of the day he got the part is as dramatic as any […]

It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally investigating (scientifically) the medicinal properties of a drug that’s been used for millennia — marijuana. Cannabis is probably [...]

British biotech company GW Pharmaceuticals announced positive results on its latest Phase 3 clinical trial for its drug Epidiolex. The drug is  cannabidiol-based and is used to treat children [...]

LONDON, March 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GW Pharmaceuticals plc (GWPH) (GWP.L) (“GW,” “the Company” or “the Group”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and [...]

In 1964, Raphael Mechoulam rode a public bus from Tel Aviv back to his lab at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while holding 11 pounds of Lebanese hashish […]

Alan Shackelford is intent on finding out why some of his patients respond so well to cannabis. But despite living in Colorado, the US state with some of the most […]