Under an agreement with the University of Kansas, PharmaTher has gained exclusive worldwide rights to develop and possibly commercialize ketamine as a therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “We are pleased to have added the [ALS] program to our already impressive development pipeline…
Injecting a specific type of stem cells into the bloodstream was able to reduce muscle shrinkage and promote motor neuron survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a study found. According to investigators, the findings indicate these stem cells, known as multi-lineage differentiating stress enduring (Muse)…
“I’m glad I got the chance to miss you,” I told my husband, Todd, when I got home after a day trip skiing with our children last week. Since Todd has ALS and I am his caregiver, we rarely spend time apart. Now that he is paralyzed, we don’t…
The small difference in treatment responses among amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients receiving NurOwn versus a placebo in a recent clinical trial likely was due to chance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a press release. Along with slightly more deaths in the NurOwn…
PrimeC is safe and well-tolerated for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and showed signs of slowing disease progression in patients, findings from a recently-completed Phase 2a study show. All 15 participants in the NST002 clinical trial (NCT04165850) have chosen to…
Last week, I stepped onto my soapbox (mine has special safety handrails) and voiced my opinion about an issue that’s been bugging me for several years. It’s a problem I share with about 7.5 million other people who have trouble using their voices and cannot get voice-activated devices to…
For the first time, a compound was able to restore the health of diseased upper motor neurons — nerve cells that carry voluntary movement signals from the brain to the spinal cord — in the brain of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse models, a study…
ALS Focus has opened a new survey looking specifically at the needs and challenges of caregiving for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Survey responses are expected to influence ALS programs and policy decisions. Register here to participate if you are an adult caregiver and live in the…
A novel system for three-dimensional (3D) imaging of zebrafish may be useful for studying the motor and neuronal deficits linked with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a study suggests. The system was described in the journal Optica, in the study “Coded-aperture broadband light field imaging using…
Diagnosed with sickle cell disease as a 6-month-old, Tristan Lee has faced a lot of challenges over his 37 years of life. But from a young age, he also learned how to turn those trials into triumphs. At age 9, a stroke due to his disease left him paralyzed…
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