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ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after the baseball player who was diagnosed with it. The exact cause of the disease is still not known. A small ...
ALS is a type of motor neuron disease in which nerve cells gradually break down and die. Doctors usually don't know why ALS occurs. Some cases are inherited.
ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by deterioration of motor neurons (nerve cells) that control ...
sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease. This neurodegenerative disorder causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to die, blocking signals to the muscles ...
Dr. Brian Crum, a Mayo Clinic Neurologist talks about the diagnosis and treatment of ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) causes ...
— Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brains of many patients affected with two common neurodegenerative ...
Most cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are not familial and do not run in families. In a minority of ALS cases, though, the disease may be inherited ...
There's no good evidence that statins cause or trigger ALS , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. However, there have been reports of people who have ...
Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, is ... disease that destroys nerve cells and causes disability. ALS often ...
Diagnosis occurs around age 60, and average survival is three years. Although ALS can be inherited ("familial ALS"), most people with ALS don't have a family ...
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