{"id":2633,"date":"2017-09-08T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalmarijuanainc.com\/?p=26084"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:56:35","slug":"cbd-promoted-breakthrough-treatment-32nd-international-epilepsy-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalmarijuanainc.com\/2017\/09\/08\/cbd-promoted-breakthrough-treatment-32nd-international-epilepsy-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"CBD Promoted as Breakthrough Treatment at 32nd International Epilepsy Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"
Taking place from September 2-6, the <\/span>International Epilepsy Congress<\/span><\/a> gives medical professionals from around the world the chance to speak with the field\u2019s foremost minds and to attend focused presentations revealing various aspects of epilepsy research and the development of treatment options. <\/span><\/p>\n Epilepsy continues to prove to be a difficult medical condition to treat. Epilepsy affects an estimated <\/span>1.3 million to 2.8 million Americans<\/span><\/a>. Nearly one-third of those patients suffer from seizures that are resistant to traditional anti-epilepsy treatments. As health specialists struggle to adequately control their patients seizures with traditional methods, study after study has demonstrated the efficacy of CBD against epilepsy. <\/span><\/p>\n A study published in the <\/span>New England Journal of Medicine<\/span><\/a> this past summer showed CBD to reduce seizure frequency by 39 percent in Dravet syndrome patients. Earlier in the spring, a study published in <\/span>Epilepsy & Behavior<\/span><\/a> recorded a reduction of seizures in 86 percent of the patients in the study. Similarly, a <\/span>study conducted on adult epilepsy patients<\/span><\/a> found the use of CBD lowered seizure frequency in 9 out of 10 patients who participated.<\/span><\/p>\n In light of this recent research, the epilepsy community and the doctors who treat them are turning to CBD more and more, giving CBD oil products an important place at the International Epilepsy Congress. <\/span><\/p>\n