ALLMedicine™ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center

Apr 14th, 2021 - Dysphagia worsens mortality and quality of life for persons diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), yet our understanding of its incidence and timing remains limited. We sought to estimate dysphagia incidence and dysphagia-free surviva...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Mutations in the factor-induced-gene 4 (FIG 4) gene are associated with multiple disorders, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), epilepsy with polymicrogyria, Yunis-Varón syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The wide spectrum of dis...

Apr 13th, 2021 - ALS patients have changed peripheral immunity. It is unknown whether peripheral immunity is related to cognitive dysfunction in ALS patients. To explore the relationship between the peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets and the cognitive status in A...

Apr 13th, 2021 - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular progressive disorder, characterized by limb and bulbar muscle wasting and weakness. 30% of patients present a bulbar onset, while 70% a spinal outbreak, although most of them develop bulbar im...

Apr 11th, 2021 - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has historically posed unique challenges for gene therapy-based approaches, due to a paucity of therapeutic targets as well as the difficulty of accessing both the brain and spinal cord. Recent advances in our u...

Nov 24th, 2019 - Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQST), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing differentiated products to solve therapeutic problems, today announced that Exservan™ (riluzole) Oral Film received early-act...

Jan 8th, 2019 - Universally established comprehensive clinical bulbar scales objectively assessing disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are currently lacking. The goal of this working group project is to design a best practice set of provisi...

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Sep 14th, 2011 - The evidence base for the diagnosis and management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is weak. To provide evidence-based or expert recommendations for the diagnosis and management of ALS based on a literature search and the consensus of an exp...

Oct 13th, 2009 - To systematically review evidence bearing on the management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The authors analyzed studies from 1998 to 2007 to update the 1999 practice parameter. Topics covered in this section include breaking...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Dysphagia worsens mortality and quality of life for persons diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), yet our understanding of its incidence and timing remains limited. We sought to estimate dysphagia incidence and dysphagia-free surviva...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Mutations in the factor-induced-gene 4 (FIG 4) gene are associated with multiple disorders, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), epilepsy with polymicrogyria, Yunis-Varón syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The wide spectrum of dis...

Apr 13th, 2021 - ALS patients have changed peripheral immunity. It is unknown whether peripheral immunity is related to cognitive dysfunction in ALS patients. To explore the relationship between the peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets and the cognitive status in A...

Apr 13th, 2021 - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular progressive disorder, characterized by limb and bulbar muscle wasting and weakness. 30% of patients present a bulbar onset, while 70% a spinal outbreak, although most of them develop bulbar im...

Apr 11th, 2021 - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has historically posed unique challenges for gene therapy-based approaches, due to a paucity of therapeutic targets as well as the difficulty of accessing both the brain and spinal cord. Recent advances in our u...

Mar 14th, 2021 - "Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs" – Jean-Martin Charcot Nearly 130 years after his death, Jean-Martin Charcot's name still resonates with modern neurologists. The famed 19th century French physician made myri...

Mar 10th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new compound, NU-9, improved diseased upper motor neurons (UMN) in mice and shows promise for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans, though more work is needed before a clinical trial can be started, ...

Jan 20th, 2021 - Anita Baron first noticed something was wrong in August 2018, when she began to drool. Her dentist chalked it up to a problem with her jaw. Then her speech became slurred. She managed to keep her company, which offers financing to small businesses...

Oct 14th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients prescribed edaravone are hospitalized more frequently, a new surveillance study in U.S. military veterans shows. Patients on edaravone had significantly higher rates of all-c...

Oct 14th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients prescribed edaravone are hospitalized more frequently, a new surveillance study in U.S. military veterans shows. Patients on edaravone had significantly higher rates of all-c...