by Elise Bernard | May 22, 2018 | Advocacy
More than 570 ALS advocates from across the country joined together for the 2018 National ALS Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C., on May 13-15. Nearly every state in the country was represented, with 22 advocates hailing from Texas. Stacey Crowder was one of the...
by Tanner Hockensmith | Dec 26, 2017 | News
Texas is big, really big. Our friends at Texas Humor stated that “if you drive long enough through Texas, you still might not get all the way through it.” As Texans, we pride ourselves on the sheer size of our great state. However, its sprawling cities, growing...
by wpengine | Dec 6, 2017 | Stories
By John Quinn Like many people with ALS, I first noticed symptoms several months before I was diagnosed. In December 2015, I was dropping my right foot when I walked and began fatiguing more easily than normal. I went to multiple doctors and finally saw a neurologist...
by Tanner Hockensmith | May 5, 2017 | Research, Research News
Radicava is First Approved Treatment for ALS in Decades The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced today that it has approved Radicava (edaravone), the first new treatment approved specifically for ALS in 22 years. The FDA approved Radicava less than a year...
by Mark Murtagh | Feb 23, 2016 | Advocacy, News
In 2015, The ALS Association of Texas took its largest contingency of advocates ever to Washington, DC to lobby congressional leaders to make ALS research and services to people living with ALS a priority. If you’ve never before participated in this important and...
