Safety Commissioner highlights ‘injustice’ over lack of redress for mesh scandal - Thousands of women were harmed after being fitted with pelvic mesh.

The parents of a woman born with sodium valproate syndrome say they have endured 'years of hell' as they take fight to ...

A year on from a report by the Patient Safety Commissioner that called for redress, victims of the mesh scandal say they have ...

Women harmed by pelvic mesh implants are still waiting for government compensation a year after a major report called for ...

The ACP guideline, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, includes three recommendations centered around monotherapy: ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has developed new recommendations to prevent episodic migraines in nonpregnant ...

Sodium valproate is a medicine used to treat epilepsy. For some people it might be the most effective epilepsy medicine. However, sodium valproate carries a higher risk than other anti-seizure ...

Objective: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of magnesium valproate as monotherapy in patients with partial or generalised epilepsy. Design and Setting: This was a nonblinded study ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

We found that sodium valproate (VPA), an antiepileptic drug, significantly increased surface NKG2D ligands expression on glioblastoma cells at a sublethal concentration. VPA treatment enhanced the ...

Sodium valproate—an important drug used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder—has a long and controversial history due to safety concerns, particularly for pregnant women, as it can lead to ...