Lou Gehrig

Major League Baseball will hold its first Lou Gehrig Day on June 2, adding Gehrig to Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente on the short list of players honored throughout the big leagues.

More than $500 million in claims were approved as of Monday under the NFL’s concussion settlement, nearly a decade earlier than league officials estimated they would reach that amount. Claims administrators in the settlement released an updated report on the concussion settlement information website saying about $502 million had been approved in less than two years of the settlement. The...

How the scientist who traveled the cosmos in his mind became a staple of the pop culture universe.

The man who inspired the ice bucket challenge to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig’s disease research is back home after a spending over a week in the hospital.

The man who inspired the ice bucket challenge to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig’s disease research will have his own medical bills covered for the near future.

Dogs can get ALS, too, and a veterinary program at Tufts University is looking for a cure to help furry friends and, possibly, their humans.

The originator of the famous Ice Bucket Challenge, Pete Frates, is back in the hospital, according to his mother, Nancy.

The mother of “Cake Boss” reality star Buddy Valastro has died. Mary Valastro was 69 years old. He announced on Instagram on Thursday that his mother’s “battle with ALS has ended.” He wrote that she is no longer suffering and he hopes that “she’s dancing to ‘I Will Survive’ with my dad.” Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS and...

The first two claims in the NFL’s billion-dollar concussion settlement were announced Thursday, a total of $9 million in benefits.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug Friday to treat patients suffering from amyotrophic latersclerosis (ALS) or commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease....
The drug, Radicava, is the first new treatment approved specifically for ALS in 22 years....
“This is the first new treatment approved by the FDA for ALS in many years, and we are pleased that...

The creator of Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” says he has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease.

It’s been four years since lawsuits connected to concussions were first filed against the NFL, and even now that a settlement agreement finally has been approved by a federal judge, none of the hundreds of millions of dollars available to thousands of former players will be paid until any appeals are heard — and, after that, until claims are assessed,...

The California Water Board has said the Ice Bucket Challenge doesn’t violate any of its regulations.

Former President George W. Bush took the ice bucket challenge then nominated former President Bill Clinton to do it next.

The NFL agreed Wednesday to remove a $675 million cap on damages from thousands of concussion-related claims after a federal judge questioned whether there would be enough money to cover as many as 20,000 retired players. A revised settlement agreement filed in federal court in Philadelphia also eliminates a provision that barred anyone who gets concussion damages from the NFL...