The Les Turner ALS Foundation’s 2025 Hoping Through Caring Gala raised more than $620,000 at the annual fundraising event held April 5 at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago. The funds provide ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that weakens the muscles we use to move, swallow and breathe. It can, in some cases, also cause changes in behavior and thinking. The effects of ALS ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of walkers are expected to step off at Soldier Field, Chicago in the Les Turner ALS Foundation's ALS Walk for Life Saturday, September 14 at 10:30 a.m. The two-mile walk, ...

During a time of uncertainty for research funding, the Feinberg School of Medicine received a $500,000 gift to support research into ALS, the medical school announced in a Wednesday news release.

The Les Turner ALS Foundation announced today that Laura Freveletti has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective April 10, 2023. Freveletti succeeds Andrea Pauls Backman, who will step ...

A round of golf with a PGA Tour star at a private course sounds like a dream, and Justin Thomas has made it real. But the story behind it is not a feel-good giveaway. It is a close friend fighting ALS ...

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio ALS patient and advocate made his way into an important film that will be shown this week at SXSW. KSAT viewers have seen Juan Reyes many times in our newscasts. He’s a ...

Todd Taylor's a jovial guy. Born in 1957, he chuckles as he tells us how back in the sixties, he couldn't wear his hair long because her mother, a Marine Corps officer, preferred it short. But on ...

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