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WHAT’S UP DOC? ALS after Stephen Hawking’s death

Q: How typical was Stephen Hawking’s battle with ALS?A: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease (after the famous baseball player who died from the disease in 1941). Poorly understood, but thankfully rare (affecting about 50 per million people in the United States), ALS is a devastating neurological disease.

 

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