Newsweek Cover Story on Epilepsy and the Need for a Cure

April 10, 2009

Dear Friends,

For the second time in two months, epilepsy will receive national attention in a major publication! Epilepsy will be featured on the cover of Newsweek this week (the article is available online this Sunday, April 12th and at your local newsstand on Monday, April 13th).

The article highlights stories from our families and their experiences with epilepsy, chronicling their personal struggles as well as the advances in scientific progress needed to find a cure.

In February, Parade Magazine's cover story shared my family's experiences with epilepsy and why we started CURE. The Newsweek story is another fabulous opportunity to increase awareness of the prevalence and devastation of epilepsy and to raise awareness of the need for a greater investment in research to find a cure.

Susan Axelrod
Founder and President

A STORM IN THE BRAIN:
By Jon Meacham | NEWSWEEK

The statistics are stark and sobering— and for the uninitiated (which is to say most of us), startling. Epilepsy in America is as common as breast cancer, and takes as many lives.
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THE EDITOR’S DESK Epilepsy in America: What Must Be Done
By Jon Meacham | NEWSWEEK

It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday. on Feb. 16, 2008—a cool but not cold late winter's day—my wife and I had plans for a late breakfast with a colleague of mine in New York when the call came. The bright, beautiful 4-year-old son of our closest friends had died in his sleep, the victim of an epileptic seizure. Henry Foster Lapham—he is the wonderful child pictured here—had been diagnosed with epilepsy shortly before the attack that killed him; in the vernacular of the world of epilepsy, Henry suffered what is called Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy.
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Agony, Hope & Resolve
By Susan Axelrod | NEWSWEEK

Epilepsy entered our lives more than 25 years ago, and unless things change, I fear that outcomes for families in the future won't be any better than they were for us.
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