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• Don’t Use A Lighter To Scare Your Cat

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  Oh lordie, lordie, lordie, Chad Lever from Pennsylvania was trying to get his cat from under his bedridden mom’s bed by scaring him with a lighter but ended up igniting the bed and killing his mom instead! Chad, whose mom suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease , often used his cigarette lighter to scare the cat from ...
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• Taggart’s Battle – ALS Update

  
  The Broad Brush — Authority: 515
  Taggart, my brother, is afflicted with ALS. It’s not a pretty disease. Just months ago Tag was a truck driver, working 60 hours a week driving. Today he is wheelchair bound.  The progress hasn’t slowed yet since they uncovered it. This week we visited and Tag requires assistance full time. I arrived in time to ...
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• Most World Series Championships Winners List

  
  A Pakistan News — Authority: 577
  Most World Series Championships , The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB). It was the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada since 1903, finishing the postseason in the majors. The World Series is played between the club champions of the ...
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• Ex-Viking Orlando Thomas isnt really dead, team retracts statement

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 686
  Ultimate fail: Announcing someone is dead on an official Web site when it isnt actually true.
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• Possible treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease on the cardsPossible treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease on the cards

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 139
  Lou Gehrig’s disease is considered to be one of the worst ways to die as by the time a patient notices weakness of muscles, the neurons controlling the muscles have already started dying in an untreatable process to bring death within a period of 2-5 years. According to Marcelo Vargas , a postdoctoral fellow ...
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• Attention Neurologists! - look for a Gardasil/ALS association

  
  PharmaGossip — Authority: 517
  Oct. 16, 2009 (Baltimore) -- Researchers believe that there may be a link between a vaccine against cervical cancer and a rapidly progressive, fatal disease in two young women. Both the timing of the symptoms and autopsy results “suggest a link between” the Merck Gardasil vaccine and the fatal cases of ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Voices of A.L.S.

  
  Well — Authority: 727
  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrigs disease, affects parts of the nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. The average life span of someone with A.L.S. is five years. Here, six men and women speak about how their lives have changed as a result of this devastating illness.
  3 weeks ago

• Existing Drug May Lead to ALS Treatment

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  TUESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- A drug similar to one now used to treat blood poisoning holds promise as a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrigs disease, researchers say. read more
  3 weeks ago

• The protein APC slows Lou Gehrig’s disease in mice

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 480
  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive weakness, disability, and death. Treatments are largely palliative. Using mice carrying the mutated form of the human SOD1 gene that causes inherited forms of ALS, however, Berislav ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Merck’s Gardasil Linked To Lou Gehrig’s Disease?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 595
  Merck’s Gardasil made big news late last week - and it wasn’t all good. First, the FDA endorsed the vaccine to thwart genital warts in boys and young men. This is a mild plus for the drugmaker; Gardasil is already approved to ward off the human papillomavirus, or HPV, in girls and young women, and ...
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• 2 ALS Cases May Be Linked to Gardasil Vaccine

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Researchers Believe Cervical Cancer Vaccine Could Be Linked to Cases of Lou Gehrig’s Disease By Charlene Laino WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Oct. 16, 2009 (Baltimore) — Researchers believe that there may be a link between a vaccine against cervical cancer and a rapidly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  CHAPEL HILL -- For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ever shown that a risk gene for the disease actually disrupts brain development.
  3 weeks ago

• Nightly Bits: A-Jax, Towers, Peterson…

  
  iYankees — Authority: 130
  Here’s a quick nightcap for you: BA GIVES A-JAX PROPS Baseball America has named Austin Jackson the 7th best International League prospect in the game (the list features the top-20 IL prospects). The only other position players listed before him were Matt Wieters and Andrew McCutchen, which speaks volumes ...
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• New guidelines identify best treatments to help ALS patients live longer, easier

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  ST. PAUL, Minn. -- New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology identify the most effective treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often called Lou Gehrigs disease. The guidelines are published in the October 13, 2009, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nancy O’Dell Guest Hosting WWE Monday Night Raw (Photos)

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 596
  Access Hollywood hottie, Nancy O’Dell will be the guest host tomorrow night (October 12th) on the WWE’s Monday Night Raw.  Last week we got a taste of the Pittsburgh Steeler’s QB, Ben Roethlisberger and his offensive line in the ring as guest host.  Now we will get a more feminine host for the night.Nancy has ...
  4 weeks ago

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