Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive and invariably fatal type of motor neurone disease. ALS, which affects around 90,000 people around the world, causes degeneration of the brain and spinal cord. It most commonly affects people aged between 40 and 70 and more people die from ALS each year than do of multiple sclerosis.

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