ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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Turner suffers from ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Teacher Judith Paul and her husband, Terrance, a lawyer and education researcher, founded ALS in 1986.
She had to feed my father because ALS made it so he was incapable of feeding himself.
In late 2001, Gage called Valerie Estess, the research head for Project ALS, and explained the idea.
Three from France are Pechiney (25, PY, www.pechiney.com), Alstom (23, ALS, www.alstom.com) and Groupe Danone (35, DA, www.danonegroup.com).
The median life expectancy of someone diagnosed with ALS is 39 months, and only 4% survive 10 years.
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Dr. Lucie Bruijn, science director of the ALS Association, says the progress being made in this clinical trial is exciting.
In an earlier result, Project ALS researchers discovered that the arthritis drug Celebrex may help slow the progression of the disease.
They used a questionnaire from conventional ALS trials to gather patients' self-reported data on functions such as swallowing, walking, and breathing.
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After quickly consulting Project ALS scientific advisors, who also were gung-ho, she cut a check to get the research started within days.
Project ALS is now negotiating with government regulators and undisclosed biotech firms to design a human trial that could begin next year.
Today Biogen Idec (BIIB) reported top-line results of EMPOWER, a Phase 3 trial investigating dexpramipexole in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Dr. Jonathan Glass, director of Emory's ALS center, is overseeing the trial.
PatientsLikeMe was launched in 2004 by family members of an architect who had contracted ALS five years earlier at the age of 29.
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The gene therapy experiment was largely funded by Project ALS, an innovative charity founded by ALS-sufferer Jenifer Estess and two of her sisters.
Project ALS originally funded Dr. Gage several years ago in hopes of developing stem cell treatments for ALS, work that is still ongoing.
He soon learned that one of his closest friends had been diagnosed with ALS, and was heading to Asia to look for alternative treatments.
Honored as an "agent of change, " Hawking discusses the thrill of discovery and overcoming the challenge of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Under the ruling, if Ms Taylor, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease, must do so within the year if she chooses.
ALS, are not duplicating, or worse, competing with, each other's efforts.
Turner believes the ALS results from blows to the head he received while in the NFL. He also wants to donate his spinal cord after he dies.
First, it is a retrospective case-control study and is therefore susceptible to reporting bias, meaning that people with ALS may report their coffee consumption differently from controls.
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Now Celebrex's maker, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), is now conducting a large human trial of Celebrex in over 300 ALS patients.
Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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Lockwood suffered from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
More than 4, 300 patients are on the PatientsLikeMe ALS site, where they frequently share information on how their disease is progressing and strategies they are using to fight it.
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To address the concern, PatientsLikeMe developed an algorithm that matched 149 patients taking lithium with at least one other ALS patient on the site who didn't take the drug.
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Jamie Heywood founded PatientsLikeMe after his brother was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease ALS. Patients can share information about their experience and use the network as a resource.
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