Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes the gradual loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and ...

A Jacksonville woman's experience caring for her husband with ALS has formed a foundation to help other families fighting terminal illness.

US Senators Introduce Bipartisan ABLE Employment Flexibility Act, a Tax-Free Savings Account for People With Disabilities and ...

A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely by ...

Stone will be joining Dane — whom she has been friends with "for a long time" — on the long-awaited third season of the HBO ...

In the beginning, not even Hynek Wichterle's postdoc thought his idea to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral ...

Long-term exposure to sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant generated by the burning of fossil fuels, increases the risk of ALS, a ...

Certain subsets of microglia were found to be enriched in nervous system tissues from people with amyotrophic lateral ...

Tommy and Vickie Smith have faced more than their share of health challenges. Tommy has been living with amyotrophic lateral ...

Quite often in the final years of his life and robbed of the ability to get around town on his own, Brad Dusek had his caretaker escort him to the old football field at Lamar Middle School. He would ...

Answer ALS, in collaboration with ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) and Augie's Quest, today announced plans to ...

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.