Individuals living with ALS are automatically eligible for Medicare when they start receiving Social Security benefits. Medicare should cover most diagnostics and treatments, but this depends on the ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that remains incurable, despite decades of basic and clinical research. Key stakeholders—including the US National ...

I felt the fragility of life for the first time and I had to look at what it meant to lose someone you love. The experience ...

Moshe Nussbaum, 71, a longtime reporter for Israel's Channel 12 news, was diagnosed two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The condition ...

Gehrig played with the New York Yankees for 17 years and was known as “The Iron Horse” due to his ability to play baseball, despite suffering from a variety of injuries. He played a record 2,130 ...

An expansion of a hexanucleotide repeat in the C9ORF72 gene can cause ALS. Here, the authors develop a high-fidelity RNA-targeting CRISPR system to suppress the repeat RNA expressed from the ...

Channel 12's Moshe Nussbaum was diagnosed with ALS two years ago, which made him unable to speak clearly and seemingly ended ...

Alchemab Therapeutics has entered a collaboration with Lilly to discover novel therapeutic candidates to treat amyotrophic ...

Brad Hansen, who spent 25 years at Prince Michel, living with love and joy, with Lou Gehrig's Disease, alongside caretaker ...