Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurological disorder causing motor neuron death, leading to muscle ...

Researchers with NIH say they’ve found proteins in blood that accurately detect ALS long before symptoms emerge. The study findings could help with early detection, definitive testing, and tracking ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been in the headlines lately, owing in large part to former Grey's Anatomy actor Eric Dane opening up about his battle with ...

People with a traumatic brain injury are more than twice as likely to develop ALS However, the increased risk lasts only two years, and people with concussion are diagnosed with ALS around the same ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the UK Biobank and the University of Turin, Italy, have identified a ...

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. In the United States, the prevalence is about 3.9 cases per 100,000 people, and the numbers go up ...