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Professor Ingrid E Scheffer
Paediatric neurologist and Professor, Austin Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Health & Medicine
Breakthrough: Medicinal cannabis and severe epilepsy
A major scientific breakthrough finds that a type of medicinal cannabis significantly reduces convulsive seizures in children with a severe form of epilepsy
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Health & Medicine
Understanding epilepsy
A decade-long mission to make epilepsy better understood has resulted in a new way of classifying the condition, promising more effective treatment for patients