Pacemaker may avert seizures Scientists in the US have developed a treatment for epilepsy that they say could help ­millions of people. Researchers at the ­Massachusetts ­Institute of Technology (MIT) hope to try out the neurological pacemaker, which detects and treats seizures before they happen,...

Health: epilepsy Epilepsy is usually treated with a combination of the 19 antiepileptic drugs available in the UK. These aim to stop seizures occurring but are not a cure. In extreme cases, brain surgery may be an option, as may vagus nerve stimulation, where a device is implanted to send regular...

Hiccup on The surgeons at Louisiana University have cured the hiccups of a man who had suffered them for two years after a stroke, by connecting an electrical stimulator to the vagus nerve in his neck. The university reports how intractable hiccups are sometimes caused by the vagus nerve being...