Researchers confirm prion-like properties in ALS
2011-09-20
Vancouver, BC - A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have found a key link between prions and the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
I haven't been on here much in the past couple of years, but I thought I would share that my mother finally passed away at our home in June, exactly 3 years and 8 months after she went on a ventilator. We decided to take her off the vent when she started showing preliminary signs of sepsis, most...
An excellent letter:
September 5, 2011
Another A.L.S. ‘Holy Grail’ (1 Letter)
To the Editor:
Re “Possible Culprit Is Found for Lou Gehrig’s Disease” (In Theory, Aug. 30): This excellent article on a devastating disease has some troubling observations. Not the least of these is a researcher’s...
From the NIH website:
By isolating cells from patients' spinal tissue within a few days after death, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new model of the paralyzing disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). They found that during the disease, cells called...
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Hey, I got an e-mail from a PALS who is a friend of a friend yesterday. Sounds like a nice guy, but he started talking about a Dr. in Fort Collins that looks at and analyzes your hair and puts you on a vitamin regime and this makes the PALS feel better and can stop the progress of ALS. I know...
Hi All,
I have been a member of this forum for several years and rarely post because...i don't even know why...but I do read and take so much good away from other posts. I feel like I know people who post alot, just from reading the forums and it makes me sad to see so many of the ones who...
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Hi Friends- just had to share this...
I recently got in contact with an old school friend of mine. The last time we were chatting, I was telling him about my PALS. It turns out that an old boxing friend of his has it too...
I was telling him how difficult it is trying to have a "normal"...
I have been lurking on the forum for a week or so, for reasons of finding out the latest thinking on ALS; its possible causes, latest treatments, and research. I have learned a great deal and I thank you all for how candid you have been here on this forum. So I, too, will be candid with you...
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Hello all,
I came across an article from the Toronto Star (http://www.healthzone.ca/health/articlePrint/995374), which a Toronto-based study found the gel-like substance was helping coat the injured nerves and reversing the neurological damage.
Has anyone came across this in their research...
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