Regents Professor D. Samba Reddy leads a team of pharmacology researchers that has made breakthrough discoveries in using CBD to treat and prevent hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy. The emerging field ...

Lisa Smith’s 14-year-old daughter, Haley, had run out of options. She was having roughly two dozen seizures a day and had tried “17 or 18” different pharmaceutical regimens, different diets, and an ...

In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for free. Then ...

Two years ago, Natalie Pembleton was having so many epileptic seizures each day that doctors put her in a drug-induced coma while they scrambled to figure out how to help her. She was hospitalized for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cannabidiol transdermal gel improved outcomes among children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, ...

In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. Then a fellow patient at a Denver neurologist’s office mentioned something that ...

A synthetic, non-intoxicating analogue of cannabidiol (CBD) is effective in treating seizures in rats, according to research by chemists at the University of California, Davis. The synthetic CBD ...

Kids with catastrophic epilepsy can experience numerous weekly, or even daily seizures -- despite taking multiple medications to treat their epilepsy. And parents whose children have frequent, ...

A marijuana plant extract, also known as cannabidiol (CBD), is being commonly used to improve anxiety, sleep problems, pain, and many other neurological conditions. Now researchers show it may ...

Share on Pinterest CBD may not only help to reduce seizure-related symptoms in people with epilepsy, research shows. Rowena Naylor/Stocksy United Cannabidiol (CBD) has been approved for use in the ...

CHAPEL HILL, NC - September 18, 2019 - A marijuana plant extract, also known as cannabidiol (CBD), is being commonly used to improve anxiety, sleep problems, pain, and many other neurological ...