A Call To Action -- Newsweek cover story at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/193586
Epilepsy in America is as common as breast cancer and kills as many people. Up to 50,000 Americans die each year from seizures & related causes. More than 3 million Americans are affected by epilepsy. Their mortality is two to three times higher — & the risk of sudden death is 24 times greater — than that of the general population. Yet funding for epilepsy research lags far behind other neurological conditions, at $35 per patient annually (compared with $129 for Alzheimer’s & $280 for multiple sclerosis.)
A related first-person essay by Susan Axelrod, wife of senior presidential adviser David Axelrod is at http://www.newsweek.com/id/193587?tid=relatedcl. Their 27-year-old daughter Lauren was diagnosed with epilepsy at 7 months.
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