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ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after the baseball player who was diagnosed with it. The exact cause is still not known in most people. In 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.
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 ...
This nervous system disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, destroys nerve cells and gets worse over time.
— Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brains of many patients affected with two common neurodegenerative ...
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 ...
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 ...
ALS is a type of progressive motor neuron disease that typically strikes at middle to later life and causes nerve cells in spinal cord, brain stem and brain ...
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 ...
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 ...
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