When Suzy Cornish’s daughter Ashley, accompanied by her epilepsy guide dog, recently went to a Kitchener school to pick up the son of a family friend, she was met by a teacher who told her she couldn’t enter the school with a dog. Ashley explaining to the teacher that her dog, Flicka, was not a…
Ontario needs consistent legislation to ensure a safer public-school system for children with chronic medical conditions, including epilepsy, asthma and diabetes. This was Epilepsy Ontario executive director Rozalyn Werner-Arcé’s message to the province’s standing committee on social policy during an April 8 public hearing at Queen’s Park. Werner-Arcé joined education and health experts from across…
Click here for an update (May 28th, 2014) Epilepsy Ontario has learned of a potential clobazam shortage. While there is a supply of clobazam in the market across Ontario and Canada, some pharmacies are reporting shortages of the medication. Epilepsy information specialist Suzanne Nurse advises people taking clobazam to contact their pharmacies to ensure they…
A team of Canadian researchers has embarked on a four-year study of the genetic contributions to epilepsy to develop personalized approaches to diagnosing various types of seizure disorders early as well as discovering treatments for drug-resistant epilepsy. Researchers involved with the Canadian Epilepsy Network (CENet) are sequencing genomes from 2,000 patients. CENet researchers are collaborating…
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