Wednesday, April 4, 2012

ALS MND Daily News Digest

Top Doctors in Chicago: Teepu Siddique
Chicagomag.com
Last summer, the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University announced that its researchers had uncovered a common cause for the various forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease). That dramatic breakthrough could ...
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Israeli Researchers Find Possible Cure for ALS
NTDTV
So far, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis—or ALS—is an incurable disease. It manifests in atrophy of the nervous system. It mainly harms the motor nerves that allow muscle activity. "The mental abilities of these patients is not harmed at all, ...
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Top Doctors in Chicago: Other Specialties
Chicagomag.com
773-702-6222 RAYMOND P. ROOS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) (ALS); multiple sclerosis; neuromuscular disorders. CHICAGO. 773-702-7852 SUSAN M. RUBIN Multiple sclerosis in women; migraine in women. GLENBROOK.
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Hump Day

Smokey



I had a wonderful, relaxing weekend with my parents at the Smokey Mountain Country Club. Our accommodation overlooked a few tricky holes on the course.

We made some enjoyable excursions to Bryson City and to Cherokee, enjoyed great food, and had a thoroughly peaceful time in the mountains of Carolina.

ALS MND Daily News Digest


A Little Device That's Trying to Read Your Thoughts
New York Times
Called the iBrain, this simple-looking contraption is part of an experiment that aims to allow Dr. Hawking — long paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease — to communicate by merely thinking. The iBrain is part of a new ...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

From Parents...

...and much appreciated. Don't forget; you can enlarge an image by clicking on it