Authors: Asa Farahani, Justine Y. Hansen, Vincent Bazinet, Golia Shafiei, Louis D. Collins, Mahsa Dadar, Sanjay Kalra, Alain Dagher, Bratislav Misic. The paper is now avaliable at Communications ...
The second edition of ALS Nexus — a conference hosted earlier this month in Dallas by the ALS Association — brought together people from across the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) community to ...
Summary: A new study has uncovered why some motor neurons resist degeneration in ALS while others succumb. Researchers found that neurons controlling eye muscles maintain high levels of protective ...
Former Vancouver Canucks centre Mark Kirton died Sunday at the age of 67. Kirton, who played with the Canucks for three seasons in the 1980s, was diagnosed with ALS in 2018. People with ALS, a ...
Following the Toronto Maple Leafs' Stanley Cup victory in 1967, the franchise entered a tumultuous period. Under the controversial ownership of Harold Ballard, the team was frequently mired in off-ice ...
Mark Kirton was mortal, but his attitude was “super human,” says his former junior hockey coach. The Peterborough Petes and Toronto Maple Leafs alumnus died Sunday at age 67 after seven years battling ...
A 55-year-old Casper woman is accused of siphoning money from an ALS patient in her care. She’s in court Thursday for an initial hearing on charges alleging she stole money from fundraisers organized ...
The first thing on Olivia “Whitford” Wooten’s mind isn’t her terminal diagnosis, it’s December 13th. That's her sister’s due date. Other WRAL Top Stories “I really want to meet him,” she said. “That’s ...
MONTREAL – Cody Fajardo returned to his former stomping grounds in style, leading a fourth-quarter comeback and his Edmonton Elks to a 23-22 win over the Montreal Alouettes at Percival Molson Memorial ...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable neurological disorder affecting motor neurons-nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle ...
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