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  1. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    This progressive nervous system disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, destroys nerve cells.

  2. Consumer Health: What do you know about Lou Gehrig's disease? - Mayo Clinic News Network

    May is ALS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about Lou Gehrig's disease, which is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ...

  3. Learn more about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS - Mayo Clinic News Network

    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.

  4. Protein Test is First to Predict Rate of Progression in Lou Gehrig's Disease - Mayo Clinic News Network

    ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by deterioration of motor neurons (nerve cells) that control ...

  5. Housecall: Understanding ALS - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, is ... disease that destroys nerve cells and causes disability. ALS often begins ...

  6. Statins: Do they cause ALS? - Mayo Clinic

    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 ...

  7. Diagnosis and Treatment of ALS - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Brian Crum, a Mayo Clinic Neurologist talks about the diagnosis and treatment of ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) causes ...

  8. Most Cases of ALS Do Not Run in Families - Mayo Clinic News Network

    In a minority of ALS cases, though, the disease may be inherited and occur in multiple family members. Not all gene mutations responsible for the inherited form ...

  9. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Care at Mayo Clinic

    Those specialists may include experts in lung diseases (pulmonologists); ear, nose and throat specialists; interventional radiologists; clinical nurse ...

  10. Sharing Mayo Clinic: Bob Tierney sharing the signed Lou Gehrig baseball

    ... illness called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Today, ALS is often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. The new Lou Gehrig exhibit in Heritage Hall ...