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...
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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: Recent Publicity Reignites Awareness
ALS awareness has taken the nation by storm recently thanks to the famous “ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge.” I personally have little to no experience wit...
Terrible ALS
Amylotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a disease of the central nervous system. It is a nasty progression of neurod...
Knowledge is Power: power for muscles affected by ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease made famous by Lou Gehrig, is the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease. Characterized by upper and lower...
ALS: A Tough Disease to Swallow
Imagine this: You are a 45 year old individual. You are married and have school-aged kids. You have a successful career in which you have found fulfillment. Ove...
What does Calcium have to do with ALS?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease that affects around nearly 22,600 Americans at any one time. Due to degeneration of motor neurons,...
Calcium and Its Connection to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Amyotrophic later sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is disease characterized by death of motor neurons leading to mobile impairment and event...
Which is worse?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is disease in which motor neurons in the brain degrade and eventually die. This leads to the loss of motor an...
What is ALS?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The motor neuronal deat...