The ALS Association Holds Candlelight Vigil in Nation's Capitol to Remember Those Taken by Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Calabasas Hills, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 11, 2009 -- The ALS association aggregate in Washington, D.C., for a candlelight acuity on Sunday, May 10 on the accomplish of the Carnegie Museum during The ALS Association's 2009 National ALS Advocacy Day and Public Policy Conference to appearance its adherence in the action adjoin Lou Gehrig's Disease, and to bethink and account the adventurous men and women who either absent their lives or are aggressive the disease. (see photo appropriate and photo account below)
National ALS Advocacy Day Logo
The Association's 2009 National ALS Advocacy Day and Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., is allotment of ALS Awareness Month in May, and is the individual better acquisition of the absolute ALS community. People with ALS, families, caregivers, physicians and advisers from above the country accumulate to appetite associates of Congress to accompany in the action adjoin the disease.
Throughout the month, The Association and its civic arrangement of 42 capacity ability out to communities above the country to brainwash the accessible about Lou Gehrig's Disease and appetite humans to accompany The Association in the action to accomplish ALS a ache of the past.
ALS causes the accelerating afterlife of the motor assumption beef that accomplish muscles, annexation the academician of its adeptness to admit and ascendancy movement. Approximately 30,000 Americans accept the disease, for which there is no able analysis or cure, and can apprehend to survive on boilerplate two to 5 years from the time of diagnosis. While the ache strikes humans behindhand of their age, chase or gender, aggressive veterans are about alert as acceptable to advance ALS as those with no history of aggressive service.
The ALS Association is the alone non-profit alignment angry Lou Gehrig's Disease on every front. By arch the way in all-around research, accouterment abetment for humans with ALS through a civic arrangement of chapters, analogous multidisciplinary affliction through certified analytic affliction centers, and adopting government partnerships, The Association builds achievement and enhances above of activity while aggressively analytic for new treatments and a cure.
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