This episode of "What's Health Got to Do With It?" recognizes National Epilepsy Awareness Month, with a discussion of epilepsy and efforts to help cure the disease.
In epilepsy, the normal behavior of brain neurons is disturbed.
The drug valproic acid appears to help the brain replenish a key chemical, preventing seizures.
Guests include:
- Beth Lewin Dean, CEO of CURE Epilepsy, a nonprofit organization founded by Susan Axelrod and a small group of parents of children with epilepsy dedicated to finding cures for the disease.
- Nora Hennessy, whose daughter suffers from epilepsy.
Afterward, U.K. author Helen Rappoport discusses the life of Mary Seacole, a Black Jamaican woman known in Britain as a founder of modern nursing who gets little attention in the U.S.
"What's Health Got to Do with It?" is a talk program from WJCT in Jacksonville that examines the intersection of health care and daily life. The host is neurologist Dr. Joe Sirven.
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