This September marks the annual Newborn Screening Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness for newborn screening. Every newborn is tested for certain diseases and disorders after birth. Newborn screening is a public health service practiced in each state in the United States and each state decides which tests are required. With a simple blood test, medical professionals are able to check for many diseases and disorders which can lead to ma

MANY CAUSES OF EPILEPSY ARE RARE Although epilepsy as a diagnosis is not rare, many causes of epilepsy are rare. When the underlying cause of epilepsy impacts fewer than 200,000, it is considered a rare epilepsy. At least 100 genes are known to cause epilepsy, not to mention other structural, metabolic, immune, and infectious causes of rare epilepsies. Moreover, 1,000 genetic disorders have epilepsy as a common symptom. Most if not all of these are also rare. Rare epilepsies