People living with rare diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or muscular dystrophy as well as those who have suffered from a stroke or spinal cord injury often experience…
What Are The Differences and Similarities Between MS and ALS? There are some similarities between the two. For example, both diseases are neurodegenerative. This means that both diseases damage…
According to a publication from Neuroscience News, a team of researchers has managed to examine how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) progresses on a cellular level for the first time. The…
According to a press release from the Muscular Dystrophy Association published at Biospace, the group has resolved to award eight new research grants for the study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
Tracheostomies in ALS A tracheostomy is essentially an invasive procedure which helps patients breathe. It also removes secretions from their lungs. Doctors cut an opening into the patient's neck and…
According to a story from MD Magazine, the team at Spatial Transcriptomics has utilized an innovative computational approach in order to map gene expression on the spinal cords of patients…
The State of Rare Diseases in China The Illness Challenge Foundation (ICF) is an organization devoted to easing the burdens that rare disease patients living in China face. They accomplish this…
According to a story from the Yale Daily News, Brian Wallach, class of 2003, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in November of 2017. Although being…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a team of scientists has discovered a genetic variation that can cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This variant acts on a biologic pathway that has…
Researchers at BGN Technologies (at Ben-Gurion University) have come up with a new way to predict and monitor progression of a wide array of neurodegenerative diseases. One of the illnesses…
The Importance of Speech The ability to speak gives individuals not only the opportunity to communicate with one another, it provides an outlet for expression, creativity, and connectedness. Unfortunately, that…
According to a story from pm360online.com, the Orion Corporation, a pharmaceutical company based in Finland, has recently announced that it plans to continue its Phase 3 trial of levosimendan as…
According to a story from labiotech.eu, the biotechnology company Orphazyme has been developing an experimental therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C. In a recent Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the investigational…
Niemann-Pick Disease is a genetic lysosomal storage disease. Lipids accumulate in the lysosomes of cells, causing debilitating symptoms. There are three forms of the disease- A, B, and C. Each…
According to a story from brightsurf.com, a team from the Washington University School of Medicine, based in St. Louis, has succesfully developed a gene therapy that appears to prevent damage…
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience (FIN), one of the world’s largest and most respected brain research centers, recently announced trial results for the drug CuATSM, developed by FIN, the School…
According to an article published by R&D, scientists at Harvard have identified a new genetic clue that they suspect might be linked to the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).…
Perhaps the most difficult thing about rare disease research is that not only do the conditions affect only a small portion of the population, but like every diagnosis, they affect…
According to an article at UIC Today, scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have conducted experiments suggesting graphene might be useful in diagnosing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or…
According to a story from king5.com, nine-year-old Taylor Futch's smile has always been able to captivate those around her. Unfortunately, Taylor's smile is often the extent of her ability to…
According to a story from the USC News, a team of doctors with the University of Southern California (USC) ALS Clinic are doing their best to help Shaun Kalpakoff, a…
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) stops communication between the brain and voluntary muscles. Patients slowly lose muscle strength, affecting their ability to walk, talk, and even breathe. The illness eventually results…
Neurodegenerative disorders affect millions of people across the world. They include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Alzheimer's disease, among others. For most neurodegenerative diagnoses, there are no effective treatments, no…
According to a story from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National ALS Registry is playing a vital role in learning more about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a devastating…
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a condition which affects the bodies nerve cells. It's neurodegenerative and progressive, causing the patient muscle weakness and muscle atrophy. It eventually results in paralysis.…
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