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Feb 2024
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Bringing epilepsy out of the shadows: Ho...

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Send comments and feedback In the 1990s, there was more funding for leprosy research in the United Kingdom than for epilepsy research. It was around that time that Dr. Edward (Ted) Reynolds, then president of ILAE, recognized that as a global problem, epilepsy required global solutions. His idea blossomed into the Global Campaign Against Epilepsy and estab ... Show More
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