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Neurxapharm launch new comic strips on epilepsy for children

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To mark International Epilepsy Day 2022, Neuraxpharm have launched a series of new comic strips which may be of interest to parents of children with epilepsy.

The strips follow lead character Emma (age 7) and how she approaches her epilepsy in her day-to-day life. You can find the first three chapters of the strip at the links below:

Reasonable Accommodations for students with epilepsy raised in the Dáil

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Our ongoing campaign around reasonable accommodations for students with epilepsy during state exams was recently raised in Dáil Eireann with Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley.

The matter was raised was by Deputy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor as part of a wider debate on leaving cert reform.

Epilepsy Ireland to meet with Minister regarding access to Free Travel next week.

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Epilepsy Ireland will be meeting with Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys TD, this coming Tuesday to discuss access to the Free Travel scheme for people with epilepsy.

We very much welcome the Minister meeting with us on this most important issue and we look forward to highlighting the need for amendments to be made to the Free Travel Scheme to improve access to the scheme for people with epilepsy.

Study highlights issue of stigma associated with epilepsy

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A new study focusing on stigma and epilepsy has recently been published in leading epilepsy medical journal, Epilepsia.

The study was conducted by the International League Against Epilepsy’s task force on stigma. For their research, the study’s authors reviewed published studies from between 1985 and 2019 on epilepsy & stigma from 13 global research databases.

Patients Deserve Better campaign rolls into Waterford.

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The New Year will see the continuation of the Patients Deserve Better campaign.

The campaign was launched in 2021 and is being coordinated by our colleagues in the Neurological Alliance of Ireland (NAI) and Epilepsy Ireland are proud to support the campaign.

The campaign has been highlighting the overall shortage of neurology nurses – covering all conditions including epilepsy – across Ireland.