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- ALS and Associated Web Sites - Contains resource links for references on various organizations that deal with matters concerning Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
- ALS Network - Serves as a resource and support group for individuals having Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis through education and extensive campaigns. Includes legal discussions concerning the patients and journal entries.
- Hoher Meissner - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Provides facts about the motor neurone disease that include its history, occurrence and frequency, and therapies conducted to patients.
- ALS Ride for Life - Details the institution's activities that deals with patients who have acquired the motor neurone disease. Also contains pictures, updates on events, and newsletters.
- NINDS: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Contains comprehensive information about the disease that include its synonym, overview on the disorder, possible treatments, prognosis, and the researches conducted.
- Angel Fund: Providing Hope for ALS - Non-profit organization that aims to eliminate and reduce Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis cases through fund raising activities, campaigns, media relations, and public awareness.
- Build-UK - Venue for people with motor neurone diseases, caregivers, families, and professional health and social workers. Provides forums for information exchange and contemporary medical researches.
- Curtis R. Vance Foundation - Non-profit organization that promotes public education and funds researches for the treatment and cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- General Practice Notebook: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Provides brief information about the motor neurone disease and contains a comprehensive list of various links to related disorders.
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Associations
- ALS Association Greater Sacramento Chapter - Support and service oriented organization in Sacramento that aims to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis through researches and active campaigns for awareness.
- ALS Association Connecticut Chapter - Non-profit organization in the state that supports and caters to individuals who have ALS. Includes scientific accounts of the disease and updates on the group's activities.
- ALS Association Keith Worthington Chapter - Group that sponsors and facilitates support groups, making partnership with groups working on neurological disorders, and increase technological use to reduce cases of ALS disease.
- ALS Foundation for Life - Charitable organization that promotes awareness and public education on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis for the improvement of patients and families.
- MDA's Wings Over Wall Street - Group formed by people affected with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis themselves that aims to provide cure of the disease through support and funding of researches for such definite goal.
- ALS Association - DC/MD/VA Chapter - Educates and provides free services for patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ASL). With organization profile and details on conducted researches.
- Steve Carlin ALS Research and Assistance Fund - Supports ALS patients and their families through financial aid for treatment of the motor neuron disease and provides assistance to projects and researches for such disorder.
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Clinics
- ALS Hope Foundation - Organization that aids patients of Amyotrophic Lteral Sclerosis with proper medical treatment and clinical diagnosis. Also supports its advocacy on education and research programs.
- Les Turner ALS Foundation - Chicago - Independent public organization devoted to the treatment and eradication of the disease through support groups, professional consultations, use of medical treatments, and educational drives.
- MDA/ALS - Mount Sinai Medical Center - Presents various programs implemented for patients with MDA or ALS through collaborations of the clinical care team and research staff. Also advocates scientific researches for treatments of the disorders.
- Miami ALS - Academic institution that provides health care and support for the families of patients diagnosed with ALS. Also conducts medical research in the field related to the disease.
- Neuromuscular ALS Center - Joint program of RWJ University Hospital and RWJ Medical School. Contains information for various neuromuscular diseases and ALS, and links to resources related to the disease.
- Washington University - Neuromuscular Disease Center - Provides comprehensive data about neuromuscular diseases that include myopathy, NM junction, spinal cord, neuropathy, motor neuron, and cerebellar.
- Yale University - Department of Neurology - Offers referral services for diseases related to neuromuscular, specializing in the fields of ALS, Myasthenia Gravis, Myopathy, CMT, Stiff-Man Syndrome, and other related disorders.
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Treatment
- ALS Research: Medicinal Effect of Human Umbilical Cord Blood on ALS - Presents a copy of the scientific research conclusive of the positive effect of human umbilical cord blood effect in the analysis of mice for the treatment of ASL.
- ALS Therapy Development Institute - Non-profit biotechnology company that aims to provide scientific means and ways in treating and eradicating ASL. Includes company profile, staff list, and contact details.
- Steven Shackel's ALS and MND - Author accounts the combination of medications, positive practices in life, and proper diet in slowing down neurodegenaration of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
- Gus Communications: ALS - Provides communication solutions specifically designed for patients having ALS, using developed and supported software.
- Hope Pharmaceuticals - ALS Patients - Presents an excerpt of the interview with Dr. Craig Sherman from Hope Pharmaceuticals on medical treatments for drooling ASL patients.
- Life Extension Foundation: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Provides updates on current news and events on the ALS disorder and discussions on alternative therapy system. Includes other topics and journals on related subjects.
- Neural Signals, Inc. - Details the current discovery of the company on enhancing communication methods through the interfacing of the product and brain synapses to improve skills of the patients.
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Adie_Syndrome
- Adie's Pupil - Presents pictures of a person suffering from Adie syndrome. Also contains brief explanations on the confirmation, differentiation, and cause of having such disorder.
- NORD: Adie Syndrome - Article covers details on general discussions pertaining to the rare neurological disorder.
- OMIM: Adie Pupil - Provides a short clinical discussion on the rare neurological disorder.
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Familial_Dysautonomia
- Contact a Family: Familial Dysautonomia - Provides an overview on the disease and its pattern of inheritance, plus information on the symptoms and diagnosis of persons acquiring such illness.
- Cure FD Foundation - Contains information about familial dysautnomia, a disease carried by persons with Central or Eastern European Jewish ancestry. Includes overview on the researches conducted and updates on fund raising events.
- Dysautonomia Foundation - Non-profit institution that supports medical research and treatment of patients inflicted with the genetic disease. Presents list of upcoming and events, and profile of the charity group.
- Fordham University: Berish Y. Rubin - Accounts the professor's researches on the microbiological aspect of Familial Dysautonomia. Also details laboratory procedures and scientific results of the study.
- Jewish Genetic Diseases - Includes overview about the genetic disease, its symptoms, inheritance patterns, diagnosis and life expectancy of patients inflicted with the disorder.
- NORD: Familial Dysautonomia - Contains brief discussion on the general concept, characteristics, and symptoms acquired by victims having FD.
- American Journal of Human Genetics - Reports on the discovery of the genetic make-up causing the disease.
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Brain_Diseases
- Angioma Alliance - International and non-profit organization established by individuals having cavernous angioma, which aims to improve lives of inflicted people through education, support, and researches.
- Arachnoid Cyst Foundation - Promotes emotional support and guidance for individuals suffering from Arachnoid Cyst. With information about the congenital disorder and its development stages.
- DANA Foundation - BrainWeb - Lists various kinds of brain diseases and related disorders. Also provides links and resources for students and educators.
- About Brain Injury: Glossary of Terms - Presents technical words and definitions of matters related to brain and disorders.
- NINDS: Fahr's Syndrome - Outlines the synonyms, nature, treatment, prognosis, and researches concerning the rare neurological disorder.
- Harvard Medical School: The Whole Brain Atlas - Presents images of the normal human brain and cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative, and inflammatory diseases as provided by Keith Johnson and Alex Becker.
- Healthy Brain Project - Showcases diagrams and photos of the brain for the purpose of promoting awareness in the proper caring and maintenance of the central organ.
- eMedicine Health - Brain Infection - Provides overview, causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of infectious agents in the human brain.
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