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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.
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 ...
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 ...
— Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brains of many patients affected with two common neurodegenerative ...
The test can help make a diagnosis early in the disease. Spinal tap, known as a lumbar puncture. This involves removing a sample of spinal fluid for laboratory ...
ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by deterioration of motor neurons (nerve cells) that control ...
They called him the "iron horse" and the "pride of the Yankees." But when baseball great Lou Gehrig came to Mayo Clinic in June 1939, his name became ...
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 ...
There's no good evidence that statins cause or trigger amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. However, there have been ...
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