“No, my bruises are not from a fight.” A young barista named Gerard from Flick The Bean café in Launceston recently shared that turning up to work with bruises or a black eye results in customers joking that he must have been in a fight. The sad reality is that seizures make his life unimaginably […]
Media releases
Walk For Epilepsy 2020
Epilepsy Smart Schools #FingerKnittingChallenge
My Journey Exhibition 2020
My Journey Podcasts 2020
Launching Purple Month 2020
International SUDEP Action Day – 23 October 2019
Difficult Conversations Are Needed 23 October is International SUDEP Action Day. For reasons that are poorly understood, people with epilepsy have an increased risk of dying suddenly for no discernible reason. Epilepsy – A Focus on Tasmania, released early this month highlighted that across Australia approximately 300 people die from epilepsy each year. The cause […]
New Research: Tasmania’s Real Cost of Epilepsy – October 2019
Research released today by Epilepsy Tasmania reveals startling new health statistics and the significant burden that epilepsy places on Tasmanians. The report Epilepsy – A Focus on Tasmania provides new insights into epilepsy and compares the situation in Tasmania against national and international data. “This is the most comprehensive epilepsy research ever undertaken in Tasmania […]
Coalition Government Commits $20M to People Living With Epilepsy – April 2019
The Coalition Government will commit $20M over four years to support people living with epilepsy, Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, announced on Saturday. The funding will enable the expanded delivery of a range of national epilepsy initiatives that will reduce the chronic health impacts experienced by Australians of all ages living with epilepsy through a […]
Purple Month – Talking Point, March 2019
Purple Day is a worldwide grassroots campaign started in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan from Canada to get more people talking about epilepsy. For the past 11 years, Epilepsy Tasmania through its affiliation with Epilepsy Australia has been a proud official partner of Purple Day, using it to educate Tasmanians about epilepsy and challenge myths […]
