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A young man with SMA answers this question by becoming a student leader

Everyone is born, and everyone dies. What happens in between — colds and flu, cardiac problems, cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — is anyone’s guess. And people do guess. It’s common — indeed, almost…

After two years of laying the groundwork, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has opened its National ALS Registry to collect information from people living with ALS. Scientists…

Recently, media outlets reported a possible link between developing ALS and living near Lake Mascoma in Western New Hampshire. The Union Leader in New Hampshire and other news outlets indicated that the…

A government-supported research team announced in the Sept. 23 issue of the journal Neurology that having served in southwest Asia during the Gulf War significantly increases the risk of later…