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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: The disease that killed the Iron Horse Diseases do not discriminate between socioeconomic status, race or activity level and has little mercy. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is such a disease. Nicknamed the “Iron Horse”, famed first baseman for the New York Yankees Lou Gehrig, was one of the first individuals to bring ALS into the forefront of the general populations mind’s, after dying from the disease after being…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1869 discovered Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (The ALS Association, 2015). ALS is more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease after Lou Gehrig, a great American baseball player whose career unfortunately ended abruptly due to this incurable degenerative disease. ALS is the deterioration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that leads to muscle weakness. This significant decrease in muscle strength eventually…

BACKGROUND We, Elizabeth, Jessica and Raina are studying Biotechnology- Forensics Advance in Fleming College. This report was prepared as an assignment for Technical Communications, as a Group Presentation Report. The report looks at the status of Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) in Canada. Being a contemporary medical, ethical and legal issue, we found it to be an apt report topic. SCOPE This report includes the history of legalization, the current stance and the ethical perspectives…

“Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive degeneration of nerve cells that control muscle movements. The disease, the most common motor neuron disease among adults, became known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the New York Yankee’s Hall of Fame first baseman. Gehrig’s career ended in 1939 because of the condition. About 30,000 patients in this country have the disease and about 5,000 are diagnosed with ALS every year.” (ALS) History ALS was first…

Gloria Taylor was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and after a mere four days of being diagnosed by her neurologist, she had already begun to formulate a plan to get assistance in ending her life (CBC News, 2012). After petitioning the Supreme Court of British Colombia…

has had a group of diseases and types of illnesses. Some of these diseases are easily treatable, while others are killers, but the worst are those that still have no treatment or cure, thus being the dangerous amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s, is a rapidly progressive disease attacking the nerve cells. ALS is a chronic disease affecting the nervous system. This disease kills and cripples because of the breakdown in the body’s motor…

Some experiments were aimed at finding how SOD1 becomes pro-apoptotic (promoting programmed cell death) due to the fact that healthy SOD1 are against programmed cell death (Pasinelli et al. 2004). The pro-apoptotic characteristic of mutant SOD1 is demonstrated in vivo and in vitro. The mitochondria inside cells firmly control apoptosis, and the mutant SOD1 that aggregates inside mitochondria triggers the programmed cell death of motor neurons (Pasinelli et al. 2004). One experiment studied…

Mrs. Sharon Tanks, RN, MSN,MPA,RN,NEA-BC,MSCN is currently a nurse manager for the spinal cord injury/disorders/multiple sclerosis center of excellence department (SCI/D) at the Veteran’s Hospital located in East Orange, NJ. She manages a fourteen bed unit with eleven nurses and nine ancillary staff. Besides managing a fourteen bed unit, she also manages the outpatient spinal cord injury clinic located on the unit. Mrs. Tanks started as a unit nurse in the SCI/D unit and over the course of her…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig Disease is a nervous system disease that attacks the neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis was found in 1869 by Jean-Martin Charcot a French neurologist. It was not until 1939 when Lou Gehrig announced that he had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis which ended his baseball career at the age of 36 that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis made national attention. “It is estimated that about 30,000 patients in this country…

Introduction: Imagine yourself not being able to achieve simple tasks let alone see, walk or speak. You’re in such excruciating pain you don’t want to live anymore. You think that your life isn't worth it because you aren't getting any enjoyment or pleasure living and you think Euthanasia is the answer to your problems. Euthanasia is the practice of assisted suicide, in order to relieve pain or suffering. Euthanasia has been a controversial topic due to its apparent infringement of a person’s…