Sarah Bradley is a writer with six years of experience creating personal essays, reported features, and content related to health and parenting topics. Nicholas R. Metrus, MD, is a neurologist and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive nervous system disease affecting nerve cells (motor neurons) in the brain and spinal cord. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in ALS the brain ...

“ALS may change what my body can do, but it hasn’t changed who I am at my core,” Johnson tells PEOPLE Alex Ross is a Staff Writer at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2022 and previously worked at E!

Multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms may present differently in females than in males. Females may experience menstrual cycle changes, more intense pain, and optic nerve damage, in addition to cognitive ...

A man with an uncommon type of motor neuron disease experienced improved symptoms and continued to work as a physician a year after becoming the first person to receive a drug designed to target the ...

Christina Applegate, who shared in 2021 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), often speaks about her health journey Christina Applegate announced in August 2021 that she was ...