It was distressing not to see in the recent EW piece about dog epilepsy (“A Dog’s Life’, EW 6/10) any mention of the major role that flea treatments can play in triggering canine epilepsy. This is not ...

Canine epilepsy is a prevalent chronic neurological condition that imposes significant diagnostic, therapeutic, and welfare challenges in contemporary veterinary practice. Its management involves a ...

Question: My dog recently began treatment for epilepsy. He is taking phenobarbital, but I am thinking of taking him off of it. Max doesn't seem like the same dog since beginning this medication. All ...

It is estimated that more than 4 million dogs in the U.S. suffer from epileptic seizures but a new drug being tested in the Bay Area is showing promise as a way to control the scary episodes. Hundreds ...

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The only study on cannabidiol (CBD oil) as a treatment for epilepsy in dogs was recently published in the Journal of American Veterinarian Medicine. Of importance to veterinarians and pets is that ...

There have been scattered reports of dogs that are able to predict their owners' epileptic seizures well before they happen. Whether this forecasting skill is a product of a dog's sixth sense, a ...

We humans share a lot of similarities with dogs, such as personal preferences, social behaviors, facial expressions, and 80 percent of our DNA. We also have many diseases in common, including epilepsy ...

A collaborative study describes a novel myoclonic epilepsy syndrome in dogs for the first time and discovers its genetic cause at DIRAS1 gene. The affected dogs developed myoclonic seizures at young ...