May is ALS Awareness Month

Besides being the month we set aside to honor mothers, May is also ALS Awareness Month. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease (named after the high-profile baseball player who was diagnosed with the disease), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The…

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Promising Trials in Field of Alzheimer’s Research

I had the pleasure of attending the Alzheimer’s Association Spring Research Forum, naïve as it may seem for me to use the word pleasure in the same sentence as Alzheimer’s disease, there was a real sense of hope throughout the audience listening to the panel of research doctors discuss their updates, findings and breakthroughs. [pro_ad_display_adzone…

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