The speciality pharmaceutical company Tikomed has announced that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has granted the company permission to go ahead with a Phase 2 clinical study.…
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Aaron McQ did not want to die. He knew, however, with his disease he would inevitably have to. The 50-year-old man from Seattle…
According to The Times of Israel, a group of researchers believe they have found the origin of what could lead to a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Given the debilitating effect…
According to a story by The Japan Times, Masatane Muto relies on a power wheelchair to move around. He is hardly in control of his own body and requires help…
According to ASHA.org, when Tiffany Turner graduated, she set out to expand opportunities for fellow speech language pathologists like herself. Turner saw a great need in her community for…
CannTrust Holdings Inc. and Australia’s Gold Coast University Hospital will work together to carry out a clinical trial. The study will evaluate CannTrust’s cannabidiol oil capsules as a way to…
MedicNova Inc. has announced the results of subgroup analyses after a finished clinical trial. The trial was designed to evaluate MN-166 (ibudilast) as a possible treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. has announced that it has secured its second U.S. manufacturing location for NurOwn®, an experimental drug currently under investigation for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
According to a story from the Washington Post, Dr. Rahul Desikan had chosen to dedicate much of his research career to the study of long term, neurodegenerative illnesses. About a…
According to a story from reuters.com, the U.S.-Israeli company BrainStorm Therapeutics will not provide its investigational stem cell treatment under the recently passed U.S. Right to Try law. The company…
According to a story from GlobeNewsWire, the biopharmaceutical company Orphazyme A/S, which is committed to the development of treatments for patients that are living with rare diseases, has recently announced…
According to a story from UK Healthcare, a team of researchers and scientists at UK Healthcare is preparing to start a clinical trial that will test a new therapy aimed…
According to a story from the Ottawa Sun, several hundred people participated in the annual ALS Walk on June 9th, in which people walk down the Sir John A. MacDonald…
A study has discovered a mechanism involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The researchers hope that this new information could contribute to finding a treatment for the condition. The full…
Military veterans are known to have twice the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) compared to the general population, but researchers are yet to understand why. The full story can…
According to a story from inhomelandsecurity.com, military veterans are roughly twice as likely to get amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a lethal degenerative disease that kills in as little as two…
The pharmaceutical company Biohaven has announced that they will be using an expanded access program to make an experimental drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) available to patients before F.D.A.…
A year after being approved as the first new treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 22 years, Radicava is altering the way physicians treat the illness, which is also known…
A clinical trial is ongoing to test if stem cells harvested from bone marrow and injected into an ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) patient's spinal fluid will stop or slow the…
An organisation called PatientsLikeMe that helps to represent patients to governments and pharmaceutical companies has published a press release about the results of two recent studies designed to define and…
According to a story from the National Institutes of Health, the innovative new CRISPR gene editing technology is being used in order to identify specific genes that could play a…
According to a story from webmd.com, diesel exhaust could increase the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig disease. People who are exposed to diesel exhaust…
Often children and other family members of patients with ALS end up being caregivers for their family, which can lead to isolation and a stressful life, reports WHYY. After Jodi…
According to a story from wired.com, Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous physicists on the planet, passed away on Wednesday, March 14th, 2018. He was 76 years old. His…
Scientists in California at Salk Institute for Biological Studies are currently developing a drug that can mimic the effects in the body usually obtained from exercise, reports the National Post.…
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