Columnist Dagmar Munn says she has often felt out of place in the ALS community because of the slower pace of her disease ...

Under current regulations, spouses can receive benefits only if the veteran lived with the disability for at least eight ...

Four serum neurofilament light chain tests show high accuracy in diagnosing ALS and predicting its progression, new research suggests.

with disease progression being relatively slow for heterozygous forms but very rapid for the homozygous form. The study also identified variants in other ALS-associated genes, including C9orf72 ...

Bayesian analysis and interim futility checks allowed rapid and efficient testing of multiple drugs in parallel. Challenges included variability in disease progression (a common issue in ALS ...

“ALS is a complex illness ... The signals seemed to be stronger in study participants with more rapid disease progression. This agent is set for phase 3 testing, with enrollment expected ...

with disease progression being relatively slow for heterozygous forms but very rapid for the homozygous form. The study also identified variants in other ALS-associated genes, including C9orf72 ...

A number of studies have shown that motor neurons are unable to mount a complete stress response as they lack the capacity to upregulate heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). Furthermore, HSP70 has been ...

with disease progression being relatively slow for heterozygous forms but very rapid for the homozygous form. The study also identified variants in other ALS-associated genes, including C9orf72 ...