ALS MND Daily News Digest

Cytokinetics Announces That the European Medicines Agency Has Granted CK ... MarketWatch (press release) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that afflicts 20000 to 30000 people in the United States and fewer than 1 in 10000 persons in the EU. Approximately 5600 new cases of ALS are diagnosed each year in the US, ... See all stories on this topic »

Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder: review Telegraph.co.uk By Joanna Bourke On the day the late historian Tony Judt lost the use of his hands as a result of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease), Timothy Snyder proposed that the two of them engage in a series of historical, ... See all stories on this topic »