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New plans to improve care for thousands of people in Wales with epilepsy have been announced by Welsh Assembly Government health minister Edwina Hart.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new information to healthcare professionals over a risk of people taking anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) having suicidal tendencies.

Less than half of patients with active epilepsy in the United States are informed by their doctors about treatment options, according to a survey by the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation.

Asking people who have partial seizures how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an accurate count, according to a report in the journal Archives of Neurology.

The charity Epilepsy Action has urged caution over calls for GPs to prescribe generic versions of drugs rather than branded ones.

A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology recommends immediate brain computerised tomography (CT) scans to screen certain patients with seizures in a hospital accident and emergency department.

New research suggests that inheriting two genetic mutations that can individually cause epilepsy might actually reduce the number of seizures.

A study of how having epilepsy can affect someone's daily life has been published in the journal Epilepsia.

The new study, from the Howard Florey Institute,