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Our Director of Genomics, Professor Sanjay Sisodiya, is a co-author of a Nature Review Perspective, exploring how climate change is affecting human health globally. In this Perspective, the research team explored how changing weather patterns resulting from climate change affect sleep.

The Epilepsy Society has welcomed the findings of an international study that throws new light on why some people with focal epilepsy do not respond to anti-seizure medications.

Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper - GOV.UK consultation sets out the Governments plans and proposals to reform health and disability benefits and employment support. 

Although announced plans state that people with severe long-term health conditions will be protected and will not face reassessments, the charity is concerned about how people with epilepsy will be assessed. We urge the government to clarify the impact of its proposals as soon as possible to provide peace of mind to disabled people that benefits will not be withdrawn or frozen before additional support is provided.

Today, Wednesday 26 March is Purple Day, which is all about raising awareness of epilepsy worldwide. Here at Epilepsy Society we have been asking people to #StanduptoSeizures and support our world leading research. 

Rosie Wrighting is one of just 10 Gen Z MPs. She is the youngest female to be elected at the last election and has recently been appointed as a Labour Health Champion. But here she puts politics to one side to speak, for the first time in public, about another important part of her life – her epilepsy.