Epilepsy Cure Initiative is a not for profit incorporated organization founded by parents of a child with uncontrolled seizures, inspired by life experiences and fuelled by a burning desire to make a positive difference for people with epilepsy here and now...Read more
Remember: You might have epilepsy but epilepsy does not have you. Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte had epilepsy? See more famous people with epilepsy click here
The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy was founded in 1994 after twenty month old Charlie Abrahams, having endured multiple daily seizures, and failed every available anti-convulsant drug and one brain surgery, was cured of his epilepsy by the ketogenic diet at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The diet was undertaken despite resistance from the five pediatric neurologists he had seen.
When Charlie's parents realized that Charlie was but one of hundreds of thousands of children who were being similarly medically mismanaged every year, they started The Charlie Foundation...Read more
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At its worst, epilepsy with myoclonic absences caused 1,000 seizures a day. Cindy Uribe can remember when her 10-year-old son was just 16 months old, turning heads on the soccer pitch.
"We'd gone to the Seattle University's soccer field for a pickup game. Gabe had an infant's soccer ball and was dribbling it up and down the sideline," she recalled. "The adults were amazed by Gabe showing such control at such a young age." ...Read More
