Meet Roger Craig, a three-time Super Bowl Champion and dear friend of Dwight Clark, who was recently diagnosed with ALS. Learn how Roger plans to support Dwight in his fight against ALS.
Meet Howard B. Levy, a highly accomplished certified public accountant with a national reputation and a long history of involvement with and support for The ALS Association. He learned of the Association during the mid-1980s during the last year of the life of his dear father, Jack Levy, who had ALS.
Thomas Todd is one of the hundreds of people living with ALS who was impacted by Hurricane Harvey. As Harvey approached, Thomas was able to safely ride out the storm with friends, but the hurricane had a devastating impact on his house. Harvey flooded his house with nearly two feet of water.
Over the weekend, we spent a few days with Tanner Hockensmith, Executive Director of The ALS Association Texas Chapter, as he and his team were setting up their supply staging facility in Houston and visiting families in need. At the time, they had reached out to all of the people with ALS in the areas affected by Harvey, and managed to connect with most of them.
As ALS progresses, people living with the disease heavily depend on complex rehabilitative technology (CRT), especially their personally customized power wheel chairs. The ALS Association played a critical role both through direct lobbying and grassroots advocacy to win support for legislation to convince the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to abandon plans to apply competitive bidding to CRT. This makes it possible for people living with ALS to continue to obtain the CRT equipment that is customized to their needs.
Meet Larry Harms. Larry is a father, grandfather, decorated Air Force veteran and tireless ALS advocate from Colorado. When you meet Larry, his wonderful sense of humor, optimism and love for life is immediately apparent. We recently sat down with Larry and learned how determined he is to live life to the fullest despite his diagnosis.
Meet Suzy Shealy from Columbia, S.C. Suzy is a wife, Gold Star mother (son Army Sgt. Joseph Derrick), grandmother, sister, person living with ALS and a tireless ALS advocate. We recently sat down with Suzy to get to know her and learn how ALS impacts her life.
Meet Tim Ritter from Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tim is a husband, father, Navy veteran, professor and a person living with ALS. We recently sat down with Tim to learn about the most impactful moments in his life that has defined who he is today.
Dr. Brian Wainger of Massachusetts General Hospital and Stephen Winthrop, Chairman of The ALS Association Board of Trustees, gave their unique clinical trial perspectives during the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS) webinar titled, “Retigabine Clinical Trial Update & Discussion with ALS Patient Advocate Stephen Winthrop.”
The ALS Association is grateful for partners that are helping to support our fight against ALS through providing unique opportunities to give. As shown by the Ice Bucket Challenge – every opportunity adds up!
Meet Lauren Duski and Ann Gillis. Lauren is a talented musician, storyteller, songwriter and devoted caregiver to Ann Gillis, an independent filmmaker living with ALS. With Ann’s encouragement and generosity, Lauren uprooted her life to pursue a country music career and become the successful musician she is today.
Meet Shelly Hoover. Shelly is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, friend, educator, Giants baseball fan, military veteran and ALS advocate. When you meet Shelly, there are two things that immediately become apparent, her joy for life and her passion for working to advocate for people with ALS. Her accomplishments are many. Since her diagnosis, she has volunteered, advocated and fundraised tirelessly. She and her family are why we fight for a cure!
The ALS Association has worked on developing and implementing new educational tools to meet the needs and requests of our community. We are pleased to announce and highlight two of our newest projects - our resource guide series translated into Spanish and the Key Medical Information App - which are now available.
Please join us in congratulating Team Challenge ALS for winning last night’s thrilling 2-OT semifinal victory in The Basketball Tournament, a 5-on-5, single-elimination basketball tournament.
ALS has always had a connection with baseball. In 1939 when Lou Gehrig stood on the mound, the world became aware of the disease. In 2014, Boston college player Pete Frates inspired the world to take part in the fight against ALS. In 2017, Major League Baseball is supporting The ALS Association’s launch of the Home Health Initiative
Major League Baseball today announced its support of The ALS Association’s ALS Home Health Initiative by launching the MLB Fights ALS campaign, a league-wide fundraising effort set for August 1st-5th.
Today, we are pleased to be joined by a wonderful ALS advocate Rob Robertson from Belleville, Ill. Rob proudly served our country in the U.S. Army for many years that included time in an elite fighting force “The Screaming Eagles.” He and his family faced many challenges over his lifetime, but nothing could have prepared him for his ALS diagnosis.
On May 14 - 16 more than 600 advocates took part in a very successful National ALS Advocacy Conference here in Washington, DC. Of the 600 advocates, 130 were people living with ALS. On Sunday and Monday, national experts and officials briefed participants on The ALS Association priorities and other “hot topics” that they might encounter in their congressional meetings and Chapter Executives prepared their state delegations for Hill meetings.
The June issue of Scientific American on newsstands this month features, “Unlocking the Mystery of ALS,” which details the significant advances of ALS research over the years. The authors, Drs. Leonard Petrucelli at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and Aaron Gitler at the Stanford University School of Medicine, thoughtfully explained the complicated science behind ALS, while weaving a story of its breakthroughs and the steps needed to get to the ultimate goal – an end to ALS.