UKIST are delighted to announce that we have been able to award a series of grants totalling £3551 to help seven families with equipment or therapies for their children affected by infantile spasms. This is the second round of grants awarded in 2018, and one of our previous recipients had this to say about how […]
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Hard won victory
Penny’s mum Dayna tells us about their battle “Our IS journey hasn’t been easy, to say the least. Penny was diagnosed at 9 weeks old and we quickly found out that all the typical meds used to treat infantile spasms weren’t going to work for her. The cause of her seizures was a cortical dysplasia […]
UKIST donates £2,000 to childhood epilepsy research
UKIST are delighted to announce that we have donated £2000 to the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre to fund their research work into childhood epilepsy. […]
Chris climbs Kilamanjaro
I have just returned from trekking up mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Epilepsy Research UK and UKIST (UK Infantile Spasms Trust). […]
