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Molecule Discovery Might Help ALS Patients

Molecule Discovery Might Help ALS Patients

December 10, 2009 - 4:17pm

THURSDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a molecule that can reduce symptoms and prolong the life of mice with a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Existing Drug May Lead to ALS Treatment


    
October 20, 2009 - 7:28am


    
    
TUESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- A drug similar to one now used to treat blood poisoning holds promise as a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.


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Finding Raises Hope for Treating ALS


    
June 15, 2009 - 12:21pm


    
    
MONDAY, JUNE 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers now believe that ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, starts well before its debilitating symptoms appear, a finding that they say could eventually lead to an effective treatment.


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Embryonic Stem Cell Research for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)


    
    
Written by Linda Fugate on June 10, 2009 - 12:10pm


     
    
ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease, but the face of ALS today is Stephen Hawking. He's the wheelchair-bound British astrophysicist who has lived with the crippling disease for almost 50 years.


    
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Stephen Hawking Expected to Make Full Recovery: Family


    
April 21, 2009 - 4:20pm


    
    
The family of famous mathematician and physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to make a full recovery from a chest infection that forced him into the hospital, officials at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom said Tuesday.


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Stephen Hawking in Hospital


    
April 20, 2009 - 4:49pm


    
    
Internationally-renowned mathematician Stephen Hawking, 67, was rushed to hospital Monday, said Cambridge University's head of communications Gregory Hayman.


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