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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable neurological disorder affecting motor ...