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 WASHINGTON (AP) - The research is persuasive: When drugs don't completely control epilepsy, surgery often can — and the sooner it's tried, the better.
Yet while children are going under the knife at younger ages, epilepsy specialists are struggling to get that message to tens of thousands of adult patients.
"Surgery used to be thought of as a last resort. Now we don't think that anymore," says Dr. Deborah Holder, a neurologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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