Sentences with phrase «died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis»

Carole Brody Fleet learned firsthand how financially devastating a spouse's death can be when her husband died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

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Last May in Nature Neuroscience, his lab and a team at Columbia University reported that embryonic stem cells could be used to shed light on the origins of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons in the brain die.

The same treatment killed many other types of neurons, including both the spinal motor neurons that die in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the human dopaminergic neurons whose mysterious loss is the cause of Parkinson's disease.

In their first study, Gray and colleagues analyzed the emotional content of blog posts from terminally ill patients who were dying of either cancer or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Gloria Taylor, an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patient and activist, who joined the right to die lawsuit in 2011, died of her illness in 2012.