STAT

They carry a gene for ALS but aren’t sick. What does medical research owe them?

Nine months after her mom died of ALS, Jean Swidler walked into a doctor’s office at Columbia University and asked to learn her own fate. A genetic counselor swabbed her cheek or took a blood sample — ...
STAT

Autoimmune responses found in ALS, pointing to a new way to view the deadly disease

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Researchers have found that patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have ...
CNBC

ALS and the crushing cost of care: How 4 Americans face the 'bankruptcy disease'

For the roughly 5,000 people diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, each year, the disease is terminal. And that number is increasing. An estimated 33,000 Americans had ALS as of 2022, ...
Medical Xpress

Making neurons young again may stop ALS

In the beginning, not even Hynek Wichterle's postdoc thought his idea to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) had a chance. "When Hynek proposed this, I thought it would never ...
Yahoo

Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why

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