Items Tagged ‘Lou Gehrig’s disease’
January 6, 2020
“I Just Didn’t Understand”: On a Mission to Cure ALS
For Veronique Belzil, Ph.D., the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is personal. In 2000, while working as a psychologist in Canada, she watched her husband’s uncle succumb to the disease. “The progression was so fast and his condition was so sad,” she says. “I just didn’t understand how this could happen.” That’s a common […]
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July 31, 2015
Mayo Clinic Study Uncovers Key Differences Among ALS Patients
By Jeff Briggs 
ALS, or amyotrophic laterals sclerosis, is a devastating disease for thousands of people in the country. Rapidly progressive, invariably fatal, ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. It attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles (muscle action we are able to control, such as […]
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