Re: Is Lou Gerig's related to MS?

Hi Ken ... `first take a look at the following site:  http://www.sd68.k12.il.us/schools/orchard/Teams/teenhealth/ALS/als/sld001.h
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This site will tell you some more about lou Gerig's disease (=A.L.S.). I 
don't know what you know about M.S. ... but in the case with multiple 
sclerosis the isolation material (myelin) surrounding (all) your nerve 
cells in the brain and spinal cord is attacked by the immune system. So in 
the end (if the disease is progressive) you can loose all the (different) 
functions driven by the attacked cells ... in the worst case ...all the 
functions. 
In the case with A.L.S. (as far as I know) only some motor neurones in the 
spinal cord are effected (and no damage is done in the rest of your nervous 
system) ..so the defects are more localised and specific. 
As far as I know the aetiology (the cause of the disease) of the two 
diseases are not the same.

I hope I've answered your question 

later.

Dave