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Anecdotal evidence has long described a positive association between being lean or underweight and developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Now, results from a large-scale study conducted in Europe appear to confirm these observations, showing that individuals with more body fat have a decreased risk of developing the disease. The identification of such a nongenetic risk factor 
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A new study in the current issue of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine demonstrates how human stem cells can successfully engraft, survive and differentiate into mature neurons in the spinal cord of a rat with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Catherine Wolf, pictured with her daughter Laura and her granddaughter Scarlett, has been living with Lou Gehrig's disease for 17 years. By Catherine G.
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The table below displays the annual support level for various research, condition, and disease categories based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms used across the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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FDA Approves Clinical Trial of TDI-132 (Gilenya) in ALS Patients February 11, 2013 – CAMBRIDGE, MA
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High school sweethearts Jeremy and Jennifer Williams kept their love alive while attending separate colleges. A football star at the University of Memphis, Jeremy knew his calling was to become a coach after graduation. Jeremy has been the head football coach at Greenville High School for the past eight years and is currently the school's athletic director as well. In 2005, Jeremy saw a doctor after having some trouble moving his hand. After three grueling years of testing, Jeremy was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease - a fatal, progressive disease affecting nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord which interferes with the brain's ability to control muscle movement. Jeremy has trouble walking and will soon be confined to a wheelchair, but he continues to coach his team............
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Stem cells taken from ALS patients may have the same capacity to develop into mature neuron-like cells as those collected from healthy donors, according to a new study released this month in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine.
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$25 Million Gift Will Streamline Collaboration to Discover Potential ALS Therapeutics. Scientific director Christopher E. Henderson, PhD, and executive director Manish Raisinghani, MD, PhD, will jointly manage the program.
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Former Gov. Paul Cellucci is opening up about the disease that is changing his life.
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Frontiers | Resentment, Hate, and Hope in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings publishes articles on the most outstanding discoveries across the research spectrum of Frontiers | Resentment, Hate, and Hope...
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Gov. Deval Patrick headlined a host of politicians and other dignitaries who marked the official opening of the Albert Sherman Center on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
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The iPad is for more than Angry Birds. Check out our webinar on Feb. 28 for Tobii Sono Key, the leading alternative communication app for iPad.
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[...] yet, scientists say, every failure has added to the complex fabric of understanding of not just ALS - a neurodegenerative disease that usually kills its victims within five years - but a whole host of similar conditions that also have long...
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It’s time we all start paying attention to concussions
There was a time when concussions weren’t feared. In fact, as recently as the 90s, many people didn’t even believe they affected your brain, says David Hovda, Ph.D., director of the Brain Injury Research Center at the University of California Los Angeles. The research was out there: In the 1920s, doctors coined the term “punch drunk” to describe boxers who wobbled around as if drunk after suffering concussions. And in a landmark 1928 study, one researcher even wrote,........
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Funded by the MND Association, international researchers have used stem cell technology to learn more about the relationship between motor neurones and their support cells. These findings highlight...
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As if being diagnosed with a terminal disease (for the record, I have no intention of letting this beat me) isn't bad enough, it is a disease that the general public has never heard of or knows very little about.
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Can Your Smartphone Predict Parkinson's or Measure Its Progression? | The Michael J. Fox Foundation...........
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Daniel L. Doctoroff, a former deputy mayor, has enlisted Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in a drive to research the disease that killed Lou Gehrig.
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John Harbaugh and Ozzie Newsome joked with President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
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Former NFL running back Thomas Jones plans to donate his brain so researchers can learn more about the long-term effects of concussions.
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Thank You @NFLonCBS and Leslie Visser for Reporting & Helping
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