EAST LANSING, Mich. — Patients, doctors and others will be available for interviews on Monday, Feb. 11, at a special event at Michigan State University honoring a clinic that provides care for patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or, as it’s more commonly known, Lou Gehrig’s disease.
A media availability session will be held at 2 p.m. at the clinic, which is located in Room 117 of the MSU Clinical Center, which is on Service Road just west of Hagadorn Road.
The clinic, operated by MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, will be celebrating its designation as a Muscular Dystrophy Association/ALS clinic, which will be part of a comprehensive center that also has a clinic located in Grand Rapids.
In addition to doctors, patients and their families, representatives of the MDA will be on hand.
The center, which will be the first in Michigan and only the 38th in the United States, utilizes a unique team approach to patient care, tapping the expertise of doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and others.
ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord which ultimately causes the complete paralysis of all voluntary muscles. Causes of the disease are unknown and there is no cure.
Currently, about 30,000 Americans are living with ALS.
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