Lou Gehrig's disease

A medical expert believes that famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking may have been misdiagnosed and could have been suffering from polio for much of his life. Christopher B. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, recently claimed in a ...

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” Professor Hawking with second wife Elaine Mason after they were married at Cambridge registry office in September 1995. Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilde, gave birth to his three children before the ...

Monica Bohn thought her career was going to be spent raising her children and holding advisory and hands-off roles as co-owner of the businesses she founded with her husband, Matthew. But Matthew died in 2010, leaving Monica to care for three children, three businesses and scores of employees.

TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Truckers and others who are routinely exposed to diesel fumes while on the job might face a greater chance of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a new study suggests. The increased risk hit a high of 40 percent when compared against men with ...

You may remember Andrew Joudrey, who was on the 2006 Wisconsin Badgers hockey team that won a National Championship. Joudrey became became intimately connected to ALS after his father-in-law was diagnosed with ALS in 2010. Andrew's wife, Sandy Joudrey, lost her father, Donnie "Papa" ...

A cross-section of mouse spinal cord tissue showing cells in which the CRISPR-Cas9 gene has been expressed (green). The Cas9 gene has been successfully inserted into motor neurons (yellow), rescuing them from death, but not the support cells called astrocytes (red). The UC Berkeley team is now ...