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The ���Ice Bucket Challenge��� helped raise over $100 million for ALS research in little more than a month. This is a staggering 3,500% increase from the $2.8 million that the ALS Association raised during the same time period in��.
Did the ALS ice bucket challenge take attention away from other, worthy charities?
This year, a challenge to Facebook users to douse themselves in ice water became an internet craze, raising millions for ALS, or Lou Gehrigs disease. Gwen Ifill talks to Nancy Frates, the mother of the man who inspired the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
Ice Bucket Challenge Leads To 1,000% Spike In Donations.
The ALS Associations national president, Barbara Newhouse, said donations to the national office surged during the 10-day period that ended Thursday, to about $160,000, from $14,480 during the same period a year ago.
Battle of the Bands to Battle ALS at JAM FOR A CURE
���Mayor Susan Haynie has declared January 25 as BATTLE ALS DAY for the City of Boca Raton,��� says Spencer Silver, a varsity athlete and a member of many student clubs and organizations. For his Bar Mitzvah project, he successfully organized an ���Estate .
Tribute to Gehrig
LEAD: It was 50 years ago this year that baseballs Iron Man, Lou Gehrig, took himself out of the Yankee lineup for the first time since 1925 and brought an end to his remarkable record of 2,130 consecutive games. The ailment that ended his career, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is known as Lou Gehrigs disease, is still considered incurable.
Creativity 50 2014: ALS Ice Bucketers - Advertising Age
It was almost impossible to miss the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this past summer. Videos of people pouring ice water on themselves to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and challenging friends to do so raised��.
How an Emory researcher benefited from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Last summer, as millions of people worldwide posted Facebook and YouTube videos of themselves taking part in the Ice Bucket Challenge in the name of raising funds and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, skeptics wondered if all that .
Genetic errors linked to more ALS cases than scientists had.
Washington University graduate student Janet Cady and assistant professor of neurology Matthew Harms, MD, found evidence that genetic mutations may contribute to more cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) than��.
ALS Drug Reduces The Memory Fog Of Old Age
Used to slow the progress of another neurodegenerative condition, ALS (also known as Lou Gehrigs disease), riluzole was an obvious choice as a potential treatment, because it works by helping to control glutamate release��.
ALS care takes heavy toll on patients family
Twelve years ago, Joanne was diagnosed with ALS, the progressive neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Now she cant speak or move, is nourished through a feeding tube, and relies on a machine to breathe. She communicates by .
Three Ohio Teens Admit to Fake ALS Bucket Attack on Autistic Boy
Three Ohio teenagers admitted at a juvenile court hearing on Thursday to pouring a bucket containing urine, cigarette butts and spit over the head of an autistic boy, court officials said.
Hockey Rivals Wilton Vs. Ridgefield Team Up for ALS
Eric Craven, 47, was diagnosed with ALS in April 2013, following symptoms of grip weakness and tightness in his throat. After confirmation from several of the best neurologists in the world, the Craven family ��� including Erics wife, Claire, and their.
Soaked for A.L.S., George W. Bush Nominates Bill Clinton for a Bucketful
Mr. Bush was inundated with a pail of cold water by Laura Bush, as the former president to takes part in the fund-raising challenge sweeping the country.
Heart drug may help treat ALS, mouse study shows.
Digoxin, a medication used in the treatment of heart failure, may be adaptable for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, paralyzing disease, suggests new research at Washington University��.
WTHS to Host Dance-A-Thon to Benefit ALS
The Washington Township High School Interact Club will host their 12th annual ���Monzo Madness��� Dance-A-Thon to benefit local victims of Lou Gehrigs disease (ALS). WTHS students who sign up as a couple and raise a minimum of $100 will be able to .
‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Donations for A.L.S. Research Top $41 Million
Contributions to the A.L.S. Association have surged since the challenge started trending online in late July.. Viral Ice Bucket Challenge continues to dominate social media, and has now raised more than $40 million for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; wide range of celebrities have participated in challenge, for which proceeds go to the ALS Assn.
Cold War collaboration probed possible viral cause of ALS
Study Soviet virus claim ��� Soviet claims that a virus causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)��� are getting further study by U.S. scientists. Six of them have just returned to Bethesda, Md., to report on a 12,000-mile trip to visit 23 clinical and.
BOLDFACE NAMES
You Know You Could Take Some Nytol for That Come on! Make me look good, shouted JASON STRAUSS, an owner of the club Marquee, where TARA REID was shimmying behind the bar for photographers. We saw this last Wednesday night at Cocktails for a Cause, which raised money for Project A.L.S. by having celebrities mix vodka martinis and sell them for $50 a pop.. Interview with David Lee Roth at benefit for Project ALS in club Marquee in Manhattan; interview with comedian Robert Smigel at roast in honor of Larry Divney, head of Comedy Central (M)
Revolutionary stem-cell ALS treatment begins advanced trials
As the Ice Bucket Challenge raises millions for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an Israeli treatment to ease symptoms and slow the progression of ALS and other incurable neuromuscular diseases is going��.
Runners raise money for teachers fight against ALS | WKBN.
The charity supports former Boardman High School teacher Christine Terlesky in her fight against ALS. ���And with the medical bills, which Im sure are adding up. Im sure its peace of mind to have some extra money there to��.
The Point Casino raises more than $46K for ALS Association
KINGSTON ��� The Point Casino presented a check for $46,816.93 to the ALS Association Evergreen Chapter Dec. 18. The donation exceeded the previous years fundraising efforts and made 2014 the most successful charity year in the casinos history, .
What An ALS Family REALLY Thinks About the Ice Bucket.
Well, we are on week two of the very-viral very-everywhere ALS ice bucket challenge. I know, I know, I can hear the groans���it started out cute and now its out-of-control. Played. Clogging up social media sites everywhere.
At ALS Association, Fundraising Success Begets Fundraising Success
The social media-fueled phenomenon, which exploded last year across the Facebook pages and Instagram accounts of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, fashion designer Donatella Versace, and countless others is rippling through traditional ALS Association .
Genervon Announces ALS Compassionate Use Results
Genervon Biopharmaceuticals LLC (���Genervon���) today announced that it has submitted results to the FDA of its single compassionate patient trial (GALS-C) following its Phase 2A (GALS001) double blinded, randomized, placebo controlled ALS clinical trial .
John Paul II Medical Research Institute Receives ALS Research Support
While the summer of 2014 will stand out in many peoples minds as the season that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went unpredictably viral, for Alan Moy, a physician, scientist and director of the John Paul II Medical Research Institute in Iowa City, the.
ALS Association to host meeting for patients and caregivers
BLUFFTON ��� The ALS Association Central and Southern Ohio Chapter will host its second ALS Meet and Greet session in Bluffton on Jan. 22. The gathering is designed for people with ALS, their families and caregivers, and others who have been .
Power Publicist Nanci Ryder Reveals ALS Diagnosis: I.
Theres only one drug, Riluzole, that has proved effective in slowing the diseases progression and dampening symptoms for the 30,000 who have ALS at any given time in the U.S. (with 5,600 new cases a year), according to��.
Fatal Limitations
THE WOMEN By Hilton Als. 145 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $21. IT is amusing to note before even beginning to read Hilton Alss remarkable first book, The Women, how much text the Library of Congress had to employ to categorize such a slender volume: there are no fewer than eight headings, ranging from Afro-Americans -- Intellectual Life to Gender Identity -- United States. The Women is one of those happy anomalies of literature, a highly concentrated mixture of memoir, literary criticism and musings on politics and psychology that provides a refreshing small-scale fix on two cumbersome American themes: racial and sexual identity. That in all its eclecticism the book has an almost magical cohesiveness is due to the peculiar talents of the author, who combines a quirky brilliance at analytical thought with a gift for visual and psychological description worthy of a novelist. The result has the hidden but compelling logic of a poem and, like the best poetry, suggests much more than it says.. Andrea Lee reviews book The Women, by Hilton Als (M)
Adventures of a German Colonist in Africa; A German Colonist
IN an epic volume that asians the utmost of splendid vitality Withelm Mattenkiodt relates, very simply, his adventures as a farmer, hunter, soldier and fugitive in the jungles of the German colony of Southwest Africa.. Stenbock-Fermor, Count A, Meine Erlebnisse als Bergarbeiter
With A.L.S. in Family, Chief at Bloomberg Joins Fight
Daniel L. Doctoroff, a former deputy mayor, has enlisted Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in a drive to research the disease that killed Lou Gehrig.. Daniel L Doctoroff, former New York City deputy mayor, enlists Mayor Michael R Bloomberg in drive to accelerate research on ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Doctoroff has a history of the disease in his family; money will go to Target ALS, consortium of at least 18 laboratories, including ones at Columbia and at Johns Hopkins.
Unspeakable bond helps Seattle couple cope with ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrigs Disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Muscle weakness is one of the first signs in ALS patients. In Virgils case, the ALS.
Study: Genetics May Play Larger Role In Who Develops ALS
Genetics may play a larger role in causing ALS, also known as Lou Gehrigs disease, than previously believed, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Former Vikings safety Orlando Thomas dies at 42 of ALS.
From Yahoo Sports: Former Vikings safety Orlando Thomas has died at the age of 42, suffering from ALS, aka Lou Gehrigs disease.
Bryant Makes Good on ALS Commitment - Atlanta Falcons
Before the season, kicker Matt Bryant promised to donate money to the ALS Association for every extra point and field goal he made in 2014.
Installing Adito/OpenVPN-ALS On CentOS - HowtoForge
Installing Adito/OpenVPN-ALS On CentOS OpenVPN-ALS, formerly known as Adito, is not to be confused with OpenVPN. They both brilliant tools that w.
Ill. fire department upgrades to ALS - EMS1.com
SPRINGFLIED, Ill. ��� The Springfield Fire Department will start operating advanced life-support units in the new year that will allow it to offer a higher level of care to accident victims or those suffering sudden medical emergencies. Fire Chief��.
Hundreds Honor Pete Frates In Gloucester With ALS Polar.
Saturday marked the third annual passion plunge in honor of 30-year-old Pete Frates who battles ALS.
BOLDFACE NAMES
And You Wonder Why Movie Prices Are Going Up We were going to ask KEVIN DILLON, one of the stars of Entourage, if he had been influenced by his role as a spoiled showbiz hanger-on, but his actions on Tuesday night more or less rendered the question redundant. Scheduled to arrive at a Project A.L.S. benefit at Ruby Falls at 7, Mr. Dillon got there nearly two hours later. The party was given by the Frye Company to introduce a boot collection to honor the Project A.L.S. co-founder JENIFER ESTESS, the vibrant theater producer who died last year at age 40. Models in silk camisole tops and filmy skirts -- and, of course, Frye boots -- had spun around on a carousel of red velvet seats and balloons.. Joyce Wadler column reports on benefit honoring late founder of Project ALS, Jenifer Estess, and on Kiva The Grinder Girls promotion of the movie Saw (M)
Brainstorm Stem-Cell Therapy Continues to Show Treatment Effect in ALS Patients
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- An experimental stem-cell therapy developed by Brainstorm Therapeutics (BCLI) continues to demonstrate early but encouraging activity in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the degenerative and fatal nerve.
Feminine Mystique in the Eyes of an Auntie Man
THE WOMEN By Hilton Als 145 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $21. Hilton Als, a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, has put together three essays in The Women, all of them elliptical reflections on race, sexuality and identity that defy easy description. They are inventive and daring. They take up arms against cant and cliche. They are also intimate and softly graphic in their descriptions of the authors homosexuality and what he calls (in a tone that delicately mocks our contemporary solemnity about such matters), his negressity.. Richard Bernstein reviews Hilton Als book The Women; photo (M)
Bangert: An awful thief called ALS
During the height of the Ice Bucket Challenge frenzy, last summers viral fundraiser that sent more than $100 million the ALS Associations way, I turned to Jim Gardner to make a ruling. Was the fad legit or a scheme built on misplaced good intentions.
Israeli Startup Reports Successful ALS Stem-Cell Therapy Trials
A single dose of the stem cell treatment called NurOwn was administered in a mid-stage phase 2a trial in 14 patients with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrigs Disease, at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. ���Nearly all subjects in this study experienced .