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The "Dueling Dinosaurs" exhibit opening this weekend at Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will feature what's believed to be the most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered.

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DinoLab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

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Epilepsy Coverage

There is new hope for people with epilepsy, a debilitating medical condition that affects millions around the world.

Annette Adkins, a 60 year old woman from Portland Oregon has spent the last decade terrified. A seizure could come at any moment. Some days, you know, when you're having seizures so often you just, it's just hard to know how is my life going to go. In 2014. Annette was diagnosed with epilepsy, but despite taking four different medications, we're still having 14 seizures a month. Globally, 50 million people struggle with seizures and about a third of them are like Annette medications just don't work. It can be really devastating. You know, I have patients who had to quit their jobs because they lost their driver's license. I have patients with young Children who can't feel comfortable taking care of their own young Children alone. But now doctors are testing a first of its kind therapy using stem cells. This therapy offers us the potential to essentially store that balance of excitation and inhibition in that part of the brain to be able to calm or ideally stop the seizures. And currently we don't have a therapy that allows us to do that. Here's how it works. Seizures can happen when certain parts of the brain get too excited and start firing uncontrollably. So the cells work to calm the brain down by producing Gaba a neurotransmitter that restores balance in the brain. There is a lot of excitatory activity that's causing spontaneous seizures. I got a chance to see the procedure firsthand. When I went into the operating room at the University of California San Diego and watched the third patient ever to have this done. Early data presented shows promising results, a 90% reduction in seizures in the first two patients treated so far. People think of seizures like, oh, you know, it's 1 to 2 minutes of a seizure, 2 to 3 times a month. It's like what 678 minutes out of your life in a month. But the people spend 99% of their time trying to avoid those 678 minutes and that really impacts their quality of life. The company plans to study whether the therapy can also treat other brain conditions like Alzheimer's. I think these patients are incredibly brave to be a part of a trial. You know, where we don't know for sure what the end result is. Cinc Annette underwent the procedure last October. She's had just one seizure since and says she finally has her life back. We're going to be capable of doing the things in life that we haven't really been confident to do over the last, you know, since 2014

New seizure treatment offers hope for people with epilepsy 

Duke neurosurgeons have now begun a non-invasive program to minimize or eliminate essential tremors. It's a condition that causes uncontrollable shaking of the hands, often seen in patients with Parkinson's or Epilepsy.

Breakthrough procedure eases tremors with ultrasound

Hand tremors, Parkinson's

Hackers sent videos and images of flashing strobe lights to thousands of Twitter followers of the Epilepsy Foundation last month in a mass cyberattack that apparently sought to trigger seizures in those with epilepsy, the foundation said Monday.

Epilepsy Foundation was targeted in mass strobe cyberattack

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The wife of Hamilton star Miguel Cervantes posted Sunday that their daughter Adelaide has died after battling epilepsy throughout her short life.

Daughter of 'Hamilton' star Miguel Cervantes dies after long illness 

Life handed the Frost family some challenges when older daughter Mia was born 11 years ago. At three months of age, Mia began suffering from seizures and was later diagnosed with Dravat Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy.



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Erin Frost with her daughters

Two twins, Sarah and Rachel, have developed an even deeper bond because of health challenges they face.

Twin sisters battle health challenges -- and life -- together

Rachel and Sarah Redmond

Chloe Veeder's world turned upside-down two years ago when she hit her head in a pool and suffered a brain injury. But a service dog named Chick has been able to make things right again.

Dog helps calm Apex student's seizures so she can return to school

Service dog cuts girl's seizures from 90 minutes to 90 seconds

There are many people who deal with the minute-by-minute fear that they will lose control and experience an epileptic seizure, as between 2 and 3 million people in the United States have Epilepsy.

Brain implant can sense, respond to seizures before they begin

New implant offers options, normalcy for epilepsy patients

Those who suffer from epileptic seizures are never sure when the next one will occur. And while one in every 26 people in the U.S. have the ailment, drugs can help, but for most, there is no cure.

Surgery helps alleviate seizures in young epilepsy patient

Ravi Stewart

A teen who suffered from seizures underwent surgery and the procedure has made a dramatic difference.