Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days. The 9-year-old's debilitating seizures are hard to watch, but his father, Forrest Hurd, said one thing can improve the boy's quality of life: medicinal ...

A medicine made from the marijuana plant moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday after federal health advisers endorsed it for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy. If ...

GW Pharmaceuticals’ experimental epilepsy drug, derived from marijuana, may be the first drug of its kind to earn regulatory approval, reports Business Insider. The drug’s active ingredient, ...

Dec. 12, 2003 (Boston) — People with epilepsy are more than twice as likely to use marijuana as the general population, according to a telephone survey conducted by researchers at the University of ...

In a recent trend, parents of children with some forms of epilepsy are giving marijuana to their children in hopes of alleviating the seizures, but researchers say cannabis is not a proven treatment ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. health regulators have approved the first prescription drug made from marijuana, a milestone that could spur more research into a drug that remains illegal under federal law. The ...