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ALS Month – Spotlight on Our Clinics

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May is ALS Awareness Month and we’re excited to shed some light on the amazing work our clinic and care service teams do to bring renewed hope to families affected…

FDA Committee Recommends Accelerated Approval of Tofersen

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a virtual meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee on March 22, 2023, to review data supporting tofersen’s New…

A Kick In the Butt

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When we both retired from long careers, my wife and I decided we had enough of New Jersey winters, so we purchased a second home in Florida. We have been…

The Greater New York Chapter Receives a $30,000 Quality of Life Grant from The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

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The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter is proud to announce that it has been awarded $30,000 as part of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation National Paralysis Resource Center…

November is National Family Caregivers Month

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It is a very tricky business being a caregiver to an ALS patient; you must manage your time wisely, keep an eye and mind on signs/symptoms, be forward-thinking, yet still…

Roberta Flack Announces She Has ALS

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NPR – The beloved singer Roberta Flack has announced through a spokesperson that she is battling ALS. The brain disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or popularly known as Lou Gehrig’s…

James J. Peters Dept. of VA Medical Center is awarded as a “Treatment Center of Excellence”

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On Veterans Day we celebrated the service of our nation’s heroes and military veterans who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. In order to improve the lives of Veterans…

Walking with a Caregiver – Pat Galvin Bloom

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February 13, 2020, is the date our world turned upside down. After months of visits to doctors and specialists, MRIs and other tests, and a neurologist who said it was…

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AMYLYX NEWS

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On September 29th, the FDA approved AMX0035 (now known as Relyvrio) to treat people living with ALS. Relyvrio, while not a cure, is a victory for the entire ALS community…

Talk. Learn. Connect.

TLC: Talk. Learn. Connect.

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The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter launched a new program called Talk. Learn. Connect. in July. This program offers a variety of speakers to increase one’s knowledge about community resources and…

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