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In a world first doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne have implanted an experimental seizure prediction device into a young Tasmanian man who suffers from epilepsy.

The original article can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2926698.htm

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This exciting story decribes and shows the process of surgical implanting a device to warn people with epilepsy when they might be about to have a seizure. The story says this is a world first therefore there is no data available to describe how effective the intevention is. However there would have been animal studies and these findings would have indicated how successful the process may be. The story does make clear that it would be 3 to 5 years before this process might be widely available. There is no information about harms associated with the surgery or intervention and no estimate of cost. The story would have benefited from independent comment.

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