Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

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Eric Dane not only battled ALS, but also advocated for others fighting the disease before his death. Dane’s work as an ALS ambassador with the organization I AM ALS is featured in the upcoming ...

In April of last year, veteran actor Eric Dane shared that he had been diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Before his death on Feb. 19, 2026, the Grey’s Anatomy star devoted much of ...

The ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Euphoria’ actor, before his Feb. 19 death due to the rare degenerative disease, was captured in the short doc as he worked to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) first garnered widespread attention in 1939, when New York Yankees baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with the neurogenerative disease. Over the decades, ...

A new study reveals that gut bacteria may play a key role in triggering ALS and frontotemporal dementia. Harmful sugars produced by these microbes can spark immune responses that damage the brain.

After his morning walk around the neighborhood, picking up trash wherever he went, Frank Albrecht came home and did pushups. One for every year of his life. The routine continued from his early years ...

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Thousands of people living with motor neurone disease could be given the chance to live longer, thanks to a new drug which has been shown to slow the progression of the most common form of the ...

Scientists in Sunnybrook’s Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program recently made history as they non-invasively opened the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to deliver a small dose of immunotherapy directly to the ...