Recent U.S. actions against ships near Venezuela may embolden other countries to seize or detain ships, legal experts said.

Scientists are testing a strikingly simple idea for calming some of the brain’s most stubborn seizures: remove the aging ...

Venezuela is accusing the United States of the “greatest extortion” and actions “worse than piracy” after U.S. authorities ...

A febrile seizure is a convulsion that can occur when a child has a fever, usually as a result of infection. The seizure often occurs during the first day of a fever, which is defined as a temperature ...

If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...

Aug. 8 -- THURSDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Even in high-risk children, death from febrile (fever-linked) seizures is rare, say Danish researchers who analyzed data on 1.6 million children. Febrile ...

Q: Which doctor should I visit in case I suffer from seizures? A: You should visit a neurologist in case you suffer from seizures. A: If the parent suffers from epilepsy, quite often the child does ...

Researchers at the University of Alabama have found a way to mimic epileptic seizures in the tiny roundworm C. elegans. The finding could make the worm a powerful model for unraveling the molecular ...

The causes, risk factors and warning signs of seizure. May 17, 2008— -- As U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy recovers from what his office has identified as a seizure, questions linger about his overall ...