Marijuana the Miracle Drug?
It seems that every day a new state is legalizing marijuana, or a new study is coming out praising the medical benefits of marijuana. For those of you against ...
Category: Disease
ALS, More than a Social Media Phenomenon
By now, we have all either seen, been nominated, or actively participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge. We know that the money is going to a good cause, eit...
ALS – We Need to Care
I’m sure that in the past few months your news feed has been flooded with the Ice Bucket Challenge. It probably even got to the point where you couldn’t stand ...
Behind the Bucket: A mechanism behind ALS appears to be too much of a good thing
Before the ALS awareness social media frenzy, the term “ice bucket challenge” meant nothing more to me than the 5+ month reality of living in Minnesota, also kn...
The True ALS Challenge
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has flooded social media outlets in the last few months and created a buzz around this neurodegenerative disease. It has jumped to ...
I Challenge You to Learn About ALS and the Ice Buket Challenge
The neurodegenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has been the center of YouTube videos and Facebook feeds for the past few months. It has bee...
ALS: More Than Just the Ice Bucket Challenge
In the last few months, the Ice Bucket Challenge has swept the nation with everyone from celebrities to your neighbor – and likely yourself too – completing thi...
ALS Challenge: I Nominate You to Dump Memantine on Your Head?
Many of you have probably done the ALS ice bucket challenge and nominated your friends as a way to spread awareness for this disease. Well I’m proud to i...
Too Many Players on the Field
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a disease that has received much attention in the past few months due to the infamous “Ice Bucket Challenge.” Though t...
ALS and the Chilling Reality of the Ice Bucket Challenge
For many people they have recently been exposed to the acronym ALS through the very popular Ice Bucket Challenge, but how many of those people actually understa...