This past May was ALS Awareness Month. Every year members of our Les Turner ALS family seize the opportunity to help raise awareness about the disease. Tag Day volunteers and ALS Awareness advocates spread the message of hope and help …
Faces of ALS: I AM ALS with Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya
For Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya, it was a relationship pulled straight from the plot of a TV show that took them all the way to the halls of the White House. «We met in 2008 while we were both …
Faces of ALS: National Nurses Week
“I help fight ALS because I was blessed with the opportunity to do so. I have never worked with such a devastating disease and yet a patient population that is so amazingly selfless and courageous. I consider it an honor …
Faces of ALS: «Everyone deserves a voice…»
Tuesday, April 16 was World Voice Day, a day to talk about the importance of healthy and effective communication. It’s estimated that approximately 75% of all people diagnosed with ALS will need some form of communication assistance. Communication devices are …
Revised Airlie House ALS Clinical Trial Guidelines
In March 2016, Senda Ajroud-Driss, MD, Director of the Lois Insolia ALS Clinic, Associate Professor of Neurology and Teepu Siddique, MD, Les Turner ALS Foundation/Herbert C. Wenske Professor, Professor of Neurology and Cell and Molecular Biology, were two of 140 …
