Some of the most powerful evidence comes from studies of patients with inherited forms of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's, Huntington's and related diseases.
Preventing these gobs of protein debris from wreaking havoc inside the brain may someday help fight not only Alzheimer's disease, but also Huntington's, Lou Gehrig's and Parkinson's.
Amgen spent millions on drugs for Parkinson's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease and low platelet levels, only to discover they were ineffective.
ALS6 is a protein normally found inside a cell's nucleus, but in patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, it is found outside the nucleus and sometimes forms unusual clumps.
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On Tuesday, Dragovic said that Lou Gehrig's disease had caused Youk's body to deteriorate.
But it failed to stop Lou Gehrig's, and trial patients lost 10% of their body weight.
Turner suffers from ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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He also conceded that while Youk did not die from Lou Gehrig's disease, his death was imminent.
Stephen Hawking, the physicist famous for envisioning the cosmos while wheelchair-bound, hopes to further research on Lou Gehrig's disease.
He has surpassed Lou Gehrig's hitting record with the Yankees--this as a player with the most successful sports franchise in history.
After the prosecution rested, Kevorkian tried to get pictures of Youk before his battle with Lou Gehrig's disease admitted at trial.
When Schleifer, a 50-year-old neurologist, cofounded Regeneron with George Yancopoulos , a molecular immunologist, the main target was Lou Gehrig's disease.
Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Ripken, who broke Lou Gehrig's record of 2, 130 successive games in 1995, was given a huge ovation by the Camden Yards crowd.
He participates in nearly every big-name fundraiser that takes place in Montreal, including those for breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease and cystic fibrosis.
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.
Sangamo BioSciences is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
Lockwood suffered from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Dr Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at the UCLA School of Medicine, died in 2004 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's Disease, also known as Motor Neurone Disease.
Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's Disease, died Sept. 17, approximately three weeks after Michigan enacted a law making assisted suicide a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
The illness may also be potentially tied to higher rates of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease -- among Gulf War veterans than veterans of other conflicts.
It was brought to national attention in 1939, when famed Yankee baseball player Lou Gehrig's illness was diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Today, the disease is most commonly known by his name.
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Recently-delayed approvals include a new drug designed to slow the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, the french abortion pill RU-486, and new uses for thalidomide, which caused serious birth defects when first introduced in the 1950's.
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Sangamo BioSciences (nasdaq: SGMO - news - people ) is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
Besides stroke, Dr. Suzdak says, drugs aimed at the new targets could prove useful for treating spinal cord injuries, Lou Gehrig's disease or even epilepsy--because the same toxic cascade that occurs after a stroke also happens after many other types of brain damage.
Greenberg is best known for driving in 183 runs in 1937 (one short of Lou Gehrig's American League record), hitting 58 home runs in 1938 (two short of Babe Ruth's record) and twice winning the American League's Most Valuable Player award while playing for the Detroit Tigers.
Motor neurone disease is known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in many parts of the world, and as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, named after the major league baseball player who had to retire from the sport in the late 1930s when diagnosed with the illness.
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Lou Gehrig, baseball's Iron Man, was up next and similarly struck out.
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