Jill Lepore, in her article about child-welfare services, describes many of the social, financial, political, legal, and bureaucratic problems that make child abuse and neglect apparently intractable ("Baby Doe," February 1st).
He is renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking neurosurgeries, which include separation of twins joined at the head and hemispherectomies, in which a portion of the brain is removed to stem intractable seizures in children.
We have had what I consider to be an intractable level of child poverty in this country that hovers between 20 and 25percentt of American children living in poverty.
We introduced magnetoencephalography (MEG -guided epilepsy surgery for children with intractable focal epilepsy at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.
(Advertisers had considered young children too intractable to deliver lines on cue; theirs had traditionally been recorded by adult actresses trying to sound like children).
For the parents of children with intractable epilepsy, the stream of constant seizures, emergency-room visits and powerful medications can become a demoralizing blur.
MEG is a useful tool in children with intractable focal epilepsy to determine the surgical candidacy and focal cortical resection to stop seizures.
Yes, they need to be studied, and you will find no bigger supporters of research into CBD than parents of children with intractable epilepsy.
Our surgical epilepsy program is part of Stanford's Level IV Epilepsy Center, the highest-level designation awarded to epilepsy centers around the country, allowing us to treat the most difficult forms of intractable epilepsy for both children and adults.
Dr. Grant is committed to the treatment of children with intractable epilepsy and is an expert at state-of-the-art brain mapping techniques and awake language mapping in epilepsy patients.
