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== General Muscular Dystrophy == | == General Muscular Dystrophy == | ||
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| Stephen Hawking, a physicist who has ALS. | |
| ICD-10 | G12.2 |
| ICD-9 | 335.20 |
| OMIM | 105400 |
| DiseasesDB | 29148 |
| MedlinePlus | 000688 |
| MeSH | D000690 |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Synonyms and keywords: ALS; Lou-Gehrig's disease; maladie de Charcot; upper and lower motor neuron disease; motor neuron disease
Overview
Historical Perspective
Classification
Pathophysiology
Causes
Differentiating Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from other Diseases
Epidemiology and Demographics
Risk Factors
Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
Diagnosis
Diagnostic Evaluation | History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Laboratory Findings
Awareness and fundraising events
- The Ride For Life, founded in 1998 by ALS patient and former teacher Chris Pendergast. Chris and other ALS patients made a wheelchair ride from Yankee Stadium to Washington D.C.—a 350-mile journey. The ride continues annually and, in recent years, has centered on the New York Metro area. Their mission is to raise public awareness of ALS, help fund research, support ALS patients and their families, and provide the ALS community with the latest ALS related news, information and inspiration. Since 1998, Ride for Life has earned nearly 3 million dollars for ALS research and patient services.
- Augie's Quest [2] was started by fitness pioneer Augie Nieto in cooperation with the Muscular Dystrophy Association after his diagnosis with the disease. Augie's Quest and ALS TDI entered into the largest private funding collaboration in the history of the disease, $36 million, in 2006. All funds raised through Augie's Quest events go 100% to ALS research.
- The Walk to D'Feet ALS held annually by the ALS Association, where walkers raise awareness and money to fight and cure ALS.
- Prize 4 Life, a group of recent Harvard Business School graduates founded Prize4Life, a nonprofit to turbo charge ALS research because one or their classmates, Avi Kremer, MBA 2007 and Chairman of Prize4Life, was diagnosed with this fatal illness in the fall of 2004. Prize4Life is a results-oriented nonprofit founded to accelerate ALS/MND research by offering substantial prizes to scientists who solve the most critical scientific problems preventing the discovery of an effective ALS/MND treatment. The Prize4Life concept is inspired by other prize awards for stimulating research, such as the X-Prize for commercial space travel and DNA-decoding, the U.S. government’s H-Prize for hydrogen renewable energy, and Eli Lilly’s venture, InnoCentive, which outsources difficult R&D problems to a distributed network of scientists using prizes.
Related Chapters
General Muscular Dystrophy
This article incorporates in public domain text from The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke