Breakthrough study sheds new light on best medication for children with seizures

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A recently published clinical study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has answered an urgent question that long puzzled ER pediatricians: Is the drug lorazepam really safer and more effective than diazepam -- the US Food and Drug Administration-approved medication as first line therapy most often used by emergency room doctors to control major epileptic seizures in children?
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news