There was no family history of the disease. My sister-in-law, age 72, is now experiencing occasional problems with lisping. Could this be the first sign of her developing familial ALS?

Today's question: Perhaps you can explain this amusing phenomenon: If you go outside when the cicadas are making a lot of noise and speak sentences with lots "s" sounds (like this one), you will ...

ANSWER: ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a disease of the parts of the brain and spinal cord that are responsible for movement. The most common initial symptom is weakness, usually more ...

There was no family history of the disease. My sister-in-law, age 72, is now experiencing occasional problems with lisping. Could this be the first sign of her developing familial ALS?

ANSWER: ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a disease of the parts of the brain and spinal cord that are responsible for movement. The most common initial symptom is weakness, usually more ...

There was no family history of the disease. My sister-in-law, age 72, is now experiencing occasional problems with lisping. Could this be the first sign of her developing familial ALS?