ALS ADVOCACY
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Secret Shopper Returns

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In 2016, the secret shopper project showed some customer service gaps that could be holding back clinical trial enrollment in ALS. Are thing...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Is a Trusted Agency Leading or Misleading?

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The CDC ALS Registry is a product of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a government agency, generously funded by...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Holding Hope Hostage

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 Hope.  It's so important to families dealing with ALS.  It's what keeps many of them going.  You hope for a better day tomorrow.  Y...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

People With ALS Deserve Access AND Proof of Efficacy

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Dear Advisory Committee Advisors, FDA Staff, and, yes, Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Management, As you know from hundreds of other comments,...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Time's A Wasting

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The ALS clock is running.  In the next few weeks, the FDA will make a decision regarding approval of NurOwn for ALS. Either way, another tri...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

"Never Wrestle With A Pig"

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At the risk of giving some recent nonsense any more oxygen, I think it's important to document a few things. I try to live by the ...
Monday, January 16, 2023

We Have A Santa Claus Problem

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  We have a Santa Claus problem. NIH We read of an NIH that has expertise and exerts leadership in other areas such as cancer or infectious ...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Hi, I'm Sandy's Friend, Cathy

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 We lost Sandy Morris to the stinking ALS this week. As many of you know, she was a huge influence for the better in what we called ALS Land...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Sign Here

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We sign forms.  We agree to things in order to get treatments, both approved and experimental.  It's exactly the same thing as signing f...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Open the @#$%^& Curtain

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Today we wait.  We wait for some therapy developers to do whatever they're doing.  We wait for regulators to do whatever they're doi...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Dear FDA Advisory Committee

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Below are my comments submitted to the FDA Advisory Committee that will be meeting to address questions related to the Amylyx AMX0035 approv...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Mislead or Lead

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 Dear. CDC and ATSDR,   You can lead or you can choose to continue to mislead.  The choice is yours. ALS Prevalence and Incidence in the US ...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Landscape Feels Littered

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During the past week I have worked on finding the status of multiple ALS research projects.  You know, the ones that were hot topics ten or ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

October 20, 2021 -- Remember The Date

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On Wednesday, October 20, a group of people with ALS and caregivers who dub themselves "ALS Problem Solvers" met with nine top NIH...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Dear Chair DeLauro and Ranking Member Granger

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Dear Chair DeLauro and Ranking Member Granger,   I write you as a concerned advocate for those with ALS (we lost Mom to ALS in 1997), a pers...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

The Ketchup Was Always Worth the Wait

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Anticipation.  Those were the great Heinz ketchup ads of the 20th Century.  The glass bottle with the narrow neck, the thick, quality ketchu...
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