Stem Cell Implications for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)

A Life Sentence with ALS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwypwQxlXhQ “In this short documentary by Frances Films, learn more about ALS and its journey in the last few years. Also learn more about the Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon that raised over £7 million for the MNDA in the UK.” Learn more about ALS here: https://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday…

Treating ALS with Stem Cell Injections: A Clinical Trial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5OoXkNIvHA Dr. Eva Feldman, a neurologist, researcher and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Michigan, is the principal investigator for a landmark clinical trial involving patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The FDA-approved trial, which is…

ALS Foundation Netherlands Campaign

ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, makes all of your muscles stop, one by one. Watch this video to learn more about a secret project that ALS Foundation Netherlands launched to raise awareness for ALS. Learn more about ALS: https://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday…

New ALS Group’s Goal: Finding a New Treatment by 2020

Entrepreneur Kevin Gosnell announced the launch of ALS ONE – a partner organization of the ALS Association and ALS Finding a Cure that aims to bring world-leading experts in neurology and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) care together to realize an ambitious goal: finding a new ALS treatment within four years.

Gloria and Me – ALS Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFHH6Ao2WFw Diagnosed with ALS, Gloria Taylor (1948-2012) spent what would be the last year of her life fighting a very public battle for the right to die with dignity. Gloria was at the centre of a successful British Columbia Supreme Court challenge that briefly overturned the ban on assisted suicide;…

Last Week’s Hot Topic on ALS

Last week’s hot topic on ALS was the Potential ALS Treatments that May Be Identified by New Discoveries About Certain Proteins written by Margarida Azevedo.  The article refers to the University of Kyoto and its researchers who discovered a protein associated with a gene involved in cancer suppression, the VHL protein,…

Environmental Toxin a Possible Cause of Symptoms of ALS, Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers at the Institute for EthnoMedicine and the University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank have discovered that chronic exposure to an environmental toxin has the potential to increase the risk for neurodegenerative illnesses such as ALS and Alzheimer’s disease. The research paper, “Dietary exposure to an environmental toxin triggers neurofibrillary tangles and…

Stem Cells for Treatment of ALS

Learn more about stem cell treatment for ALS in this video by the Mayo Clinic. “Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine are studying the use of intraspinal deliver of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to the cerebral spinal fluid of patients with ALS using a dose-escalation study.”…