Information about ALS and links to ALS resources
What is ALS?
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a disease that causes the nerve cells in certain regions of your brain and spinal cord to gradually die. Eventually, people who have Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) lose the ability to move their limbs and the muscles needed to move, eat, speak and breathe.
Doctors don't know what causes Lou Gehrig's disease, and the disease can't be cured. Although doctors can't reverse the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, advances in treatment mean that many who have the disease live longer than they did in the past. Each year about 5,000 Americans are newly diagnosed with ALS, and about 20,000 Americans have the disease. Lou Gehrig's disease first gained widespread public attention in the United States in 1939. Doctors at Mayo Clinic diagnosed baseball player Lou Gehrig's condition. |
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Symptoms and Treatment of ALS
ALS is a devastating, progressive neuromuscular condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the United States and Canada. It's usually called motor neuron disease or MND in other English-speaking countries. The term amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a combination of Greek words...
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ALS RESOURCES
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www.alsa.org
Established in 1985, The ALS Association is the only national non-profit organization fighting Lou Gehrig’s Disease on every front. By leading the way in global research, providing assistance for people with ALS through a nationwide network of chapters, coordinating multidisciplinary care through certified clinical care centers, and fostering government partnerships, The Association builds hope and enhances quality of life while aggressively searching for new treatments and a cure. |
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the world’s leading nonprofit health agency dedicated to finding treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neuromuscular diseases. They fund worldwide research; by providing comprehensive health care services and support to MDA families nationwide; and by rallying communities to fight back through advocacy, fundraising and local engagement. It’s special work powered by special people who give generously. Visit mda.org and follow them at
facebook.com/MDAnational and @MDAnews. |
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Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials Database
The PRO-ACT platform houses the largest ALS clinical trials dataset ever created. PRO-ACT contains over 8500 ALS patient records from multiple completed clinical trials. The PRO-ACT initiative merges data from existing publicly- and privately-conducted ALS clinical trials to generate an invaluable resource for accelerating discovery in the field of ALS. Visit the PRO-ACT website, nctu.partners.org |
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Prize4Life is a results-oriented nonprofit founded to accelerate ALS research by offering substantial prizes to scientists who solve the most critical scientific problems preventing the discovery of an effective ALS treatment. The Prize4Life concept is inspired by other prize awards for stimulating research, such as the X-Prize for commercial space travel and DNA-decoding, the U.S. government's H-Prize for hydrogen renewable energy, and Eli Lilly's venture, InnoCentive, which outsources R&D problems to a distributed network of scientists using prizes. Prize4Life aims to supplement and complement existing resources by attracting new minds, money, and media to the fight against ALS. - See more at: www.prize4life.org
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ALS CARE Specializing in the care for ALS patients and caregivers
ALS CARE is committed to providing support to patients, their families, and caregivers by means of education and consultations. Living productive, yet challenged lives, ALS patients are educating the medical profession, their caregivers and the world about this disease. Visit www.alscare.com for more information |
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