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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Congressional leaders have released another large-scale funding bill and related reports that contain cannabis provisions.

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 ...

The doctors were out of ideas to help 5-year-old Charlotte Figi. Suffering from a rare genetic disorder, she had as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, used a wheelchair, went into repeated cardiac ...

WASHINGTON -- A panel of government health advisers is recommending approval of a medicine made from the marijuana plant to treat childhood epilepsy, moving the medication closer to the U.S. market.