Tag: SEIZURE

Kanye West's new video for 'All of the Lights' features, well, a lot of lights -- so many, in fact, that it could cause some people to have seizures. Epilepsy Action, a U.K.-based awareness organization, has reportedly urged YouTube to pull the video, claiming that the strobe light-intensive clip had already elicited seizures in viewers with certain epileptic conditions. YouTube duly removed ...

Last week, the U.S. Government triumphantly shut down several domain names linked to counterfeit goods and child pornography. But it also shut down about 84,000 other sites that, it turns out, were completely legal. As part of its ongoing 'Operation Save Our Children' campaign, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security's ICE office recently obtained a seizure warrant from a District ...

While it's a fairly rare disorder, photosensitive epilepsy came to the forefront of the public consciousness in the late '90s when hundreds of Japanese children had seizures while watching a cartoon. Since then, TV shows, video games, and other forms of media have been better tested to make sure they don't induce fits. The Web, though, has remained largely untamed. That might change soon, thanks ...

We've all seen the "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" commercials and chuckled, but what if you actually did fall and weren't able to get up? What if you couldn't even push a button to call for help? What would you do? That's the situation Scottsdale, Arizona resident Joe Stalnaker found himself in this past weekend, and thankfully someone else -- his dog -- was there to help him . Joe suffered ...

People are just plain cruel sometimes. Take, for instance, a group of hackers who thought it would be freakin' hilarious to break into a support forum for epileptics and post flashing animations all over the page. The Epilepsy Foundation found out about the attack with in 12 hours and closed down the forums, but not before people, like RyAnne Fultz (pictured), suffered headaches and seizures. ...

Seizures, Blood Clots and Death The condition(s): Here's a medical mystery worth at least one 'House' episode: A 14-year-old British boy is rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment on a blood clot that had developed in his leg. A teenage girl in Iowa is hospitalized after lapsing into a violent seizure. On the other side of the planet, a 28-year-old South Korean man collapses and dies ...