Quick Overview of ALS
Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) just might be one of the most terrifying conditions out there. For starters, at this point in research, 95% ...
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So You Did the Ice Bucket Challenge, Now What?
Along with 2.4 million other people, I shared a video of myself doing the ALS ice bucket challenge on Facebook in the summer of 2014. I excitedly watched ice bu...
GM604 for Treatment of ALS – A New Hope for Treatment of the Disease?
The average person probably has not given too much thought about ALS, but if you’re looking at this specific of a topic you probably already have an above...
ALS: Of Ice Buckets and Men.
Last year, the ALS ice bucket challenge went viral across the United States with millions of people joining in on the phenomena of pouring ice water onto one...
ALS – The Science Behind the Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the withering away of muscles due to t...
ALS: What’s the best approach when the answer is not in your genes?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS is better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and is a neurodegenerative disease that appears during midlife of an adult. It resu...
Heritability of ALS
What is ALS? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons in the brain and the spinal cord. As ...
The beginning of the cure for ALS.
If I say the words “ice bucket challenge”, do you know what purpose of it is? Or what it is aiming to cure? The answer is the all-too-familia...
ALS… Why Do We Care?
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that quickly kills motor neuron functioning in the body. In most cases, patients afflicted with the disease die within five ...
Is there enough money?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons in the brain and in the spinal cord. ALS affects approximately 30...