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2. Epilepsy and employment - Wikipedia

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   Employment issues are responsible for 85% of the cost of epilepsy on society. [1] In the United States, the median income for people with epilepsy is 93% that of all people. The unemployment rate for people with epilepsy has been reported to be between 25% and 69%. The high school graduation rate has been reported at 64%, compared with an ...

3. Workers' compensation - Wikipedia

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   Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...

4. Workers' compensation (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Workers' compensation (which formerly was known as workmen's compensation until the name was changed to make it gender neutral) in the United States is a primarily state-based [1] system of workers' compensation. In the United States, some form of workers compensation is typically compulsory for almost all employers in most states (depending ...

5. Causes of seizures - Wikipedia

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   Breakthrough seizures are more likely with a number of triggers. [54]: 57 Often when a breakthrough seizure occurs in a person whose seizures have always been well controlled, there is a new underlying cause to the seizure. [55] Breakthrough seizures vary. Studies have shown the rates of breakthrough seizures ranging from 11 to 37%. [56]

6. Epileptic Worker Sues: Says Bosses Called His Seizure ... - AOL

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   A janitor with epilepsy is suing his former employer in Mississippi for violating federal law after he was fired for having an epileptic seizure while working, according to a lawsuit filed earlier ...

7. Seizure - Wikipedia

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   A seizure is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. [6] Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving only part of the body with variable levels of consciousness (focal seizure), to a subtle momentary loss of awareness ...

8. Focal seizure - Wikipedia

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   Focal seizures (also called partial seizures[1] and localized seizures) are seizures that affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain. [2][3] The brain is divided into two hemispheres, each consisting of four lobes – the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes. A focal seizure is generated in and affects just one part of the ...

9. Absence seizure - Wikipedia

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   Absence seizures affect between 0.7 and 4.6 per 100,000 in the general population and 6 to 8 per 100,000 in children younger than 15 years. Childhood absence seizures account for 10% to 17% of all absence seizures. Onset is between 4 and 10 years and peaks at 5 to 7 years. It is more common in girls than in boys. [7]