DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My sister was diagnosed with ALS last year. She had been experiencing symptoms for about a year before that. Please tell me about ALS and any new developments toward a cure.

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A Clark County woman is traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to be a voice for ALS victims, despite slowly losing to the disease her own ability to speak. Linda Smith will be attending the 2015 ...

BACKGROUND: Named after the esteemed baseball player who died of causes unknown in 1941, Lou Gehrig's Disease, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurological disease that ...

Fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease, one step at a time Every 90 minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with ALS. Every 90 minutes, another life is lost to this devastating disease. The annual ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The 2nd Annual Rex Mook Memorial Golf Tournament supports victims of ALS. Rex Mook was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He loved to snow ski and water ski and was a ...