The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sesquient™ (fosphenytoin sodium injection; Sedor Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of status epilepticus in adult and pediatric patients ...

Phenantoin can be administered in larger doses than dilantin-sodium or phenobarbitol; it does not have a disagreeable taste, and can be given to babies; it is made up in pink pill form and is easy ...

The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius—history’s epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or ...

A RELATIVELY small number of drugs constitutes the present-day armamentarium for the treatment of grand-mal epilepsy, and of these, 5,5-diphenylhydantoin sodium (Dilantin) has been one of the most ...