The climax of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has come and gone, but there are still plenty of people dumping freezing cold buckets of water on their heads to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – High school coaches have long been credited with building character and teaching the life lessons that can't be learned in the classrooms. One local coach is teaching ...

In the spring of 2023, Cytokinetics announced a pivot. Following the failure of ALS drug candidate reldesemtiv in a late-stage trial, the California-based biotech said it would focus its resources on ...

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve undoubtedly seen many videos of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. There are many creative videos of people dumping ice buckets that have certainly created much ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

As a board member for the ALS Greater New York Chapter, I have had a front row seat for the evolution of the now famous #ALSIceBucketChallenge” and how social media can impact a business almost ...

I am one of at least 20,000 Americans currently living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), just a part of the broader worldwide community mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking. His life was ...

So I get a text from my old college roommate/groomsman, Matt Wilson. It is simply a link to Facebook. Keep in mind, I am one of seven people on planet Earth not to have a Facebook page. But I don’t ...

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a great case study for the true potential of social media and viral marketing. No other phenomenon has ripped through the Internet quite so quickly and on such a ...

The enough-is-enough moment came, as these things sometimes do, on a trip to Winnipeg five weeks ago. On that Saturday in late October, the Montreal Alouettes suffered a sloppy defeat at the hands of ...