A webinar hosted by Epilepsy Ontario on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. will examine issues surrounding female hormones and how they affect women living with a seizure disorder. Epilepsy researcher Dr. Melanie Jeffrey will be leading the webinar, entitled Women, Hormones and Epilepsy. Throughout her presentation, Jeffrey will discuss the impact hormones have on seizure…
This past Purple Day, March 26, Duncan Green did something he’d never done before — he publicly shared his experience with epilepsy. In a classroom in front of his fellow students at Sinclair Secondary School in Whitby, the Grade 12 student spoke about what it was like to live with epilepsy. Most importantly, he described…
Epilepsy Ontario has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to raise money in support of epilepsy awareness, and those who donate will have their name seen by millions of people. Through the crowdsourcing site Giveffect, the organization is aiming to raise $5,000 during the 13th annual Targa Newfoundland, a five-day, 2,200-kilometre road rally held Sept. 14-19 across…
It was the summer of 2012 and Elizabeth Paley was at a camp with two friends. She was expecting to have a fun time, but things changed. “Little did any of us know,” she says, “that this enjoyable weekend would turn surreal in a matter of minutes.” The first morning she was at camp Elizabeth…
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