Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. A study in Nature last week shows the immune system itself may be fueling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a discovery that validates the life’s work of one of the disease’s longest-serving doctors. Before I get into that …
When Stanley Appel opened one of the US’s first ALS clinics in Houston in 1982, new patients typically faced a long slog of appointments and uncertainty. Appel pulled everyone into the same room — doctors, therapists, respiratory care — so they could get answers and support in a day, not weeks.