Newsweek Covers Epilepsy

The lat­est edi­tion of Newsweek mag­a­zine fea­tures mul­ti­ple sto­ries on Epilepsy.  If you are look­ing for some insight as to what Epilepsy is from both a med­ical and indi­vid­ual per­spec­tive, I rec­om­mend read­ing it.  The fea­ture piece talks about the lack of atten­tion that Epilepsy gets from the research com­mu­nity, in spite of the stag­ger­ing num­ber of peo­ple whom the dis­or­der affects. The fol­low­ing is a quote from the piece:

“There are 200,000 new cases each year, and a total of more than 3 mil­lion Amer­i­cans are affected by it—more than mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis, cere­bral palsy, mus­cu­lar dys­tro­phy and Parkinson’s dis­ease com­bined. Between 1 and 3 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion will develop some form of epilepsy before age 75.”

The issue also con­tains a lengthy story detail­ing the lives of peo­ple with Epilepsy, a story about Obama adviser David Axel­rod — whose daugh­ter has epilepsy, and a short video piece about a New York chef who lives with epilepsy.   The arti­cles are filled with great infor­ma­tion and numer­ous links to other sites.   I hope you will take a minute to learn a lit­tle more about Epilepsy and how it affects us all.

Epilepsy: Life on the Front­lines | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com