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ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — is a rare degenerative disease that causes progressive paralysis of the muscles. Patients first experience twitching or weakness in a limb, followed ...
Last April, Goodfriend was diagnosed with ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease that attacks the nervous system and robs people of their muscle control. The 83-year-old widow spent ...
Lytico-bodig (also Lytigo-bodig [1]) disease, Guam disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia complex (ALS-PDC) [2] is a neurodegenerative disease of uncertain etiology endemic to the Chamorro people of the island of Guam in Micronesia. Lytigo and bodig are Chamorro language words for two different manifestations of the ...
Actor David Niven began showing symptoms of ALS in interviews, and would be officially diagnosed in 1980. The 11th century monk Hermann of Reichenau had a lifelong disease that is considered likely to have been ALS. This would make him one of the earliest known patients of the disease. Chairman Mao Zedong was reported to have been suffering ...
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of a preserved tiger shark submerged in formalin in a glass-panel display case .
ALS patients experience severe symptoms as the fatal, rare disease progresses. Patients shared how they're fighting for better treatment to be available faster.
Image credits: anebje #2. Brought a pediatric patient back for emergency heart surgery (about 14yrs old). He was very nervous. Outlook looked grim. I held his hand as they began to induce anesthesia.
This category is for people who have been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron (or neurone) disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, and either are currently living or died of an unrelated cause.