Just a few short days ago, a cousin of mine passed away from a long battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). If there was ever an afflication to fight for a cure, I say ALS is the one!! What a horrible way to die. You are constantly aware of everything thats going on but cant do anything about it. I think, just as so many other illness', ALS is not given the attention it needs to get moving on funding for cures. ALS as other disease, does not need bandaid meds, it needs a CURE, a real CURE!! I think its treated just like MS. If its actually cured, then the big pharma guys would be hurting big time!! See, right now, they can come up with these band aid meds to make us think some thing is working when its really not!! MS was discovered in the 1400's, and its now the 2000's. They cant come up with more than a band aid in 600 hundred years???? Maybe Im just working off raw emotion here, but man, this just doesnt sound right to me.