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Walk the Talk

An upbeat crowd of eight thousand came together on March 29 in Washington, D.C. to participate in the second annual National Walk for Epilepsy.

Washington’s famous pink cherry blossoms were at their peak—lining almost every step of the Walk route that began in front of the Capitol and coursed past several Smithsonian museums, the World War II memorial and the Washington Monument.

By Lisa Boylan

Speaking Truth to Power

The Epilepsy Foundation’s Public Policy Institute and Kids Speak Up!Events Bring the Message of Life with Epilepsy to Capitol Hill.

By Lisa Boylan

Be a Part of History

The Epilepsy Phenome Genome Project is the largest epilepsy study of its kind. Researchers hope the information they uncover will help improve epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.

Do you have epilepsy? Does your brother or sister have epilepsy? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you may be eligible to participate in the first and largest study of its kind to identify the genes that influence the development of epilepsy and genes that modify the response to epilepsy.

By Lisa Boylan

In My Own Words

"Although five seizures in a three-year time period is not a lot in comparison to what some other people go through, it is five seizures too many for me...."

By Melanie Seaman