VCU Health physicians are treating ALS patients and pushing forward in the search for a cure.

DURHAM -- August is the month the Ice Bucket Challenge kicks off, and Tuesday the Duke ALS Clinic joined in with an Ice Bucket Challenge of its own. The director of the clinic and leading ALS ...

Palliative care physician, Dr. Mapa, and ALS researcher, Dr. Leitner, comment on the life and death for patients with ALS as well as future researchers.

The U.S. Congress greenlit a historic $315 million in federal ALS research funding for 2026 amid Rare Disease Month, spotlighting biotech progress like VectorY Therapeutics' first patient dosing in ...

The ALS Association defines ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease — as a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to waste away, loss of voluntary control over movement, ...

Getting older is one of the biggest risks for these progressive diseases that degrade functions of the brain, the spine and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In the United States alone there are ...