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Risky Business: Nongenetic Factors May Increase Odds of Developing ALS
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…
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National ALS Registry Now Open
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…
Water-Contamination Link to ALS Tenuous Without More Data
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…
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Gulf War Vets More Likely to Get ALS
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…
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