Name Subject Teacher November 23, 2014 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS, is a disease that is heartbreaking to those that it affects as well as their families. Approximately 5,600 people within the United States are diagnosed with ALS each year meaning that 2 in every one hundred thousand deaths are ALS related. The disease is terminal however after being diagnosed one could live anywhere from 5 to 10 years and in some rare causes up to 20 years. (NINDS)…
Words 2005 - Pages 9