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Article: Single-drug therapy for hard-to-control disease is promising.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- December 29, 2003
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2003 DEC 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two studies by physicians at the University of California (UC) Davis Medical Center have found that levetiracetam, an antiepileptic drug typically used in combination with other drugs, is effective as a single therapy for adult and elderly patients.
The studies, presented at the American Epilepsy Association conference in Boston, are significant because single-drug therapy is a much easier course of treatment and may be an option for the 13 million epilepsy patients worldwide who currently use multiple medications to control epileptic seizures.
"We found that levetiracetam monotherapy can be effective and ...