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The mission of the ALS Society of Canada is to fund research for a cure for ALS. [citation needed]Since 2000, ALS Canada has been one of the partners of the Neuromuscular Research Partnership (NRP), which is a collaboration between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC) and ALS Canada.
Brian Wallach (born October 9, 1980) is an American businessman, lawyer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research and patient advocate. He became known for his activism after being diagnosed with ALS in 2017. [1] Since then, Wallach has founded a nonprofit, I AM ALS, and a telemedicine company, Synapticure.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had the disease for 55 years, the longest recorded time one had the disease. He died at the age of 76 in 2018. The 11th century monk Hermann of Reichenau had a lifelong disease that is considered likely to have been ALS. This would make him one of the earliest known patients of ...
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Service Canada is the program operated by Employment and Social Development Canada to serve as a single-point of access for the Government of Canada's largest and most heavily used programs, such as the social insurance number, the Employment Insurance program, the Old Age Security program and the Canada Pension Plan. [1] Service Canada centres ...
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I was diagnosed with familial ALS, or genetic ALS, in 2022. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis runs in my family.
After her ALS diagnosis, Rodriguez requested the help of a physician for medical aid in dying. [3] However, no physicians were willing to fulfill the request; under section 241(b) of Canada's Criminal Code, anyone who "...aids or abets a person to commit suicide, whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years".