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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by deterioration of motor neurons (nerve cells) that control ...
But then the Gainesville, Florida, mother of three was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which is also know as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). An ALS ...
People with ALS or related disorders benefit from the team model of care, including coordinated diagnostic tests, access to dietary and nutritional counseling, ...
It's a progressive neurological disease that destroys nerve cells gradually, causing more and more loss of function over time. It often begins with muscle ...
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