ALS News Today

ALS report cards show how US states fall short on patient support

ALS Association yearly report cards show no U.S. state earned the highest score for policies supporting patients; several had failing grades.
New York Post

What is ALS? Eric Dane’s debilitating disease as actor dies at 53

Beloved “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane has died at age 53, less than a year after he revealed he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed ...
Kennebec Journal

ALS patients don’t have time for political games | Opinion

The Trump administration's proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health would be devastating to the efforts to find a cure for the deadly disease. On May 7, I lost my dad to ALS, two years after his diagnosis. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a ...
ALS News Today

First ALS patient dosed in study of experimental gene therapy VTx-002

The first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2 clinical study of VTx-002, an experimental therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

What is ALS and what are the causes?

What is ALS and what are the symptoms and causes? - The progressive neurodegenerative disease Eric Dane had affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord