Tim Green has been a college football star, an NFL lineman for the Atlanta Falcons, a prolific author, a network analyst, and a lawyer. He’s also an ALS patient. Now, people in his hometown see him as a problematic landlord.
My daily mantra: ALS will kill me. But it won’t break me.
I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in late 2019. It took doctors a while to figure out why, at age 59, I was falling as often as a 2-year-old.
Norfolk Police tweeted a video on Friday sharing a surprise drive-by salute to a former officer diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS.
A Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics therapy for Lou Gehrig’s disease failed a pivotal study, but the company points to better results in a subgroup. The FDA took the unusual step of publicly stating that study’s results do not show the stem cell therapy helps patients.
On Thursday Major League Baseball announced plans to honor Lou Gehrig, the historic New York Yankees first baseman who was forced to retire because of ALS (the disease that now bears his name), with his own honorary day.
"Every day is a great day." That's what Nancy Poon, a lifelong runner, tells herself about a life now spent in a wheelchair. She was diagnosed in December 2018 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
If you mean the condition where Zoey hears and sees people dancing and singing to express their innermost feelings, then no, that is not a real identified medical condition. However, if you are referring to the progressive bulbar palsy (PBP) that her TV father died from, then yes, that is a real condition.
The Food and Drug Administration told Brainstorm Therapeutics that rejiggered data from a negative clinical trial does not support the submission of a stem cell therapy for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, the company said Monday.