Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease is a rare, progressive, and fatal neuromuscular disease characterized by degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. While it is associated with a mortality rate of 50% within 30 months of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis symptoms onset, there is still no cure for ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis symptoms include difficulty in walking or doing normal daily activities, tripping and falling, weakness in legs, feet, or ankles, hand weakness or clumsiness, muscle cramps, and twitching in your arms, shoulders, and tongue, inappropriate crying, laughing or yawning. The exact ALS cause is not known, and scientists...
