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Emily Carr University of Design - Industrial Design students, in partnership with University of British Columbia - Mechanical Engineering Students are working to produce a neck brace and or body harness for people with advanced ALS. Our goal is to design and produce a unit that assists the...

Greetings. I am a senior at the University of Cincinnati studying Mechanical Engineering Technology. The purpose of my senior design project is to create a communications device for late-stage ALS patients that will enable direct communication between the patient and caregiver. The project...

For those that don't get the ALSA Research Updates The ALS Association to Support Trial of Lithium by Richard Robinson The ALS Association is funding a major clinical trial to determine if lithium can slow disease progression in patients in the early stages of ALS. The study builds on...

I have been researching the means available to allow an ALS or similarily disabled to sit errect with head up and have support from what I call the habitat environment. I have been in discussion with very sharp individuals that think we can make progress in design of habitats for the "combatee"...

They have posted the pictures of the walk in New Orleans and here are some of the links to the pictures showing Billy Dyle's Team Billy's Buckaroos. Great job Billy and everyone else. http://web.alsa.org/site/PhotoAlbumUser?view=UserPhotoDetail&PhotoID=117226&position=97&AlbumID=22551 I love...

I've been lurking on this forum for far too long, but have finally taken the plunge and signed up. Hopefully, in time, I can contribute something back as I've already learnt so much from everybody here. I'm still quite new to all this web malarkey and have found it's a very steep learning...

Hi there, I am researching into people that have incurred a spinal injury so that I can design a website that provides people with this could access to the internet without restrictions. This would involve designing a website that actually was a browser so that different functions could be...

Hello:-D My name is Daisy and I'm a design student at Emily Carr Institute as well. (if you have already read Joy's thread) I'm working on a school project to illustrate what having ALS FEELS like in order to engage people more in terms of an awareness of the disease. I have researched and...

Hi my name is Joy and I'm a design student at Emily Carr Institute. I'm working on a school project to design brochures, imagery etc in order to illustrate what ALS is and engage people more in terms of an awareness of the disease. I have researched and gotten some basic, technical information...

Ceftriaxone Clinical Trial Clinical Trial Ceftriaxone in Subjects With ALS Study Type: Interventional Study Design: Treatment, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Control, Safety/Efficacy Study Official Title: Clinical Trial Ceftriaxone in Subjects With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)...