Epilepsy and driving licences.

Epilepsy and driving: new European Union guidelines.

Driving is often an emotive issue for patients after they have had a seizure. Driving prohibitions impact a patients’ social and economic status. It can be a thorny issue to broach with patients and can create animosity between medical professionals and patients, particularly when work has required driving. In surveys of patients with epilepsy, after the wish to be seizure-free, driving is li...

System of renewal of driving licences for elderly people needs overhauling.

Diabetes and Driving

The principal safety concern for driving for people treated with insulin or insulin secretagogues is hypoglycaemia, which impairs driving performance. Other complications, such as those causing visual impairment and peripheral neuropathy, are also relevant to medical fitness to drive. Case control studies have suggested that drivers with diabetes pose a modestly increased but acceptable and mea...

Challenges in the Treatment of Epilepsy

Epilepsy is one of the most important diseases of nervous system that involves 0.5-1% of the population. In spite of new developments in antiepileptic drugs, between 20-30% of epileptic patients can not be controlled and even those who are controlled with antiepileptic drugs suffer from their adverse events. Epileptic patients have different challenges in relation to the disease and its medicat...

صرع و رانندگی

Epilepsy is a disease with high prevalence, which interferes driving and may lead to car accident This case-control study has been done on 100 epileptic patients and 100 persons as control group, who had history of driving. We gathered our patients with face to face interview and registering their information in special forms which were prepared for this study. There were three times more accid...