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  1. Mayo Clinic Researcher Honored for ALS Genetic Discovery

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For her work in uncovering the genetic link between two different but related forms of neurodegenerative disease, Rosa Rademakers, ...

  2. New Technology Helps ALS Patients Breathe Easier - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Mayo Clinic in Arizona is offering new technology to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, who experience ...

  3. Researchers develop strategy to combat genetic ALS, FTD - Mayo Clinic News Network

    “Development of a readily accessible biomarker for the c9FTD/ALS mutation may aid not only diagnosis of these disorders and allow for tracking disease course in ...

  4. MAYO CLINIC RADIO

    ... Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is a type of progressive motor neuron disease that typically strikes at middle to later life and causes nerve cells in the ...

  5. Mayo Clinic News Network Title: ALS Stem Cell Trial Release Date: May, 2014 Intro

    Intro: 15 people a day in the U.S. hear the devastating news that they have ALS. Also called Lou. Gehrig's disease, it is a gradually worsening condition that ...

  6. Mayo Clinic awarded federal grant to study experimental ALS drug

    This program offers a pathway for patients with a serious or life-threatening disease or condition to gain access to an investigational medical product (drug, ...

  7. Riluzole (oral route) - Mayo Clinic

    ... (ALS), which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Riluzole is not a cure for ALS, but it may extend survival for patients in the early stages of the disease ...

  8. Science Saturday: Link found between key gene and two neurodegenerative diseases

    Research on ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases is possible through the generous donations from patients like artist Sandra Murphy-Pak, whose art and ...

  9. Mayo Clinic Researchers Uncover Toxic Interaction in Neurons that Leads to Dementia and ALS

    ... diseases: frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The study is published Dec. 10 in the online issue ...

  10. Researchers Pinpoint Toxic Protein Caused by ALS Gene - Mayo Clinic News Network

    ALS is a motor neuron disease that affects nearly 20,000 people nationwide. The same mutation also occurs in nearly one third of patients with frontotemporal ...