therapy

I set my husband, Todd, up on his computer with his HeadMouse and sip-and-puff clicker. ALS has compromised his breathing, so I put on his noninvasive ventilator. I call my mom, who lives next door. She will keep her mobile phone in her pocket. If Todd needs anything, he…

Bloom Science and Duke University have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement that provides the biopharmaceutical company access to the intellectual property and technology related to unique strain isolates and genetic variants of Akkermansia genus bacteria. This type of bacteria has been demonstrated to slow disease progression…

Part two of a series. Read part one here. To help you get started with creating your perfect treatment plan for depression, I will share my experience with two types of therapy that have been especially helpful as I learn to cope with living with ALS. I…

First in a series of two columns on creating a plan to treat depression.  In my last column on preventing and identifying depression, I promised to create a guide to help you come up with a perfectly individualized plan to treat your depression. Just as no…

Yumanity Therapeutics has recently licensed a prodrug invented at the University of Arizona (UA), adding it to the company’s expanding platform of potential therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neurodegenerative diseases result from errors made during the building and folding processes of proteins within the cell. In 2009, UA…