Medford, OR – According to the statement, the researchers reportedly developed a sensor system for quickly testing their saliva to see if they have the correct level of anti-epileptic medicine in their system.
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Journal of Applied Biochemistry, are important because roughly 3.5 million people in the United States have epilepsy, including nearly half a million children, the authors note.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by muscle spasms, convulsions and loss of consciousness in addition to seizures, and its negative impacts to physical and mental health are numerous, including a suicide risk that’s much greater than that of the general population.
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