ALS Advocacy Groups

For further information on ALS and groups that advocate research into the disease, please see the following websites.

ALS Association
The ALS Association is the only national not-for-profit health organization dedicated solely to the fight against ALS. ALSA covers all the bases - research, patient and community services, public education, and advocacy - in providing help and hope to those facing the disease. The mission of The ALS Association (ALSA) is to find a cure for and improve living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Muscular Dystrophy Association ALS Division
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the world leader among voluntary agencies in fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Since the early 1950s, when Eleanor Gehrig served as a national volunteer leader of MDA, the Association has led the effort to assist those affected by the disorder that takes its name from her husband, baseball great Lou Gehrig, who died of ALS in 1941.

MDA's ALS Division offers the most comprehensive range of services of any voluntary health agency in the nation, and leads the search for a treatment or cure through its aggressive, worldwide research program. MDA has invested more than $155 million in its ALS program, and is committed to continuing to lead the fight.

ALS Society of Canada

ALS Links.com
An Internet portal for the ALS community that provides links to many ALS groups.

World Federation of Neurology Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
This web site is sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases to link researchers and clinicians worldwide with the goal of finding effective treatment and a cure for ALS.

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