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A team of researchers and graduate students from the University of Manitoba has made a discovery concerning amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS attacks the motor neurons, causing a gradual loss...

  By Ashley Juavinett We typically think of disease as a systemic problem – for example, a person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) gradually loses the ability to move, indicating an underlying issue...

Casting around newspapers and magazines it can sometimes seem as though disabled people were ‘invented’ or at least ‘discovered’ sometime around the Beijing Paralympics in 2008. Who before then ever heard of a disabled person...

This past summer, everyone from former President George W. Bush to Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel accepted a challenge. The challenge—aimed to raise funds and awareness for ALS—was embraced by politicians, celebrities, athletes, professionals...

Videos of people taking the ice bucket challenge are everywhere on social media, but Madusha Erandi, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Sri Lanka, asks whether other causes aren’t equally deserving of the awareness and money being raised. As all...