

ALS is well known, but still a mystery

11:33 PM, Oct. 19, 2013
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Between Lou Gehrig's widely-publicized battle with the disease that would soon bear his name, and the terrible, debilitating symptoms associated with it, ALS is an illness that most are familiar with.

But despite its notoriety, it isn't actually that common. In the United States, only about 30,000 people have ALS at any one time, comfortably below the threshold needed to classify it as a rare disease. With this relatively low incidence rate, there hasn't been a lot of money allocated to studying ALS or tracking its prevalence.

Researchers do know a few things about its origins, the most ...

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