Items Tagged ‘ALS’
June 16, 2017
Flashback: 1939 — Lou Gehrig Comes to Mayo Clinic
Diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s, the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig not only got the answers he was seeking at Mayo Clinic, he left an enduring mark on the health care organization that still lingers today.
July 10, 2009
ESPN Feature on Lou Gehrig and Mayo Clinic
By Lee Aase, Director, Mayo Clinic Social Media Network 
ESPN has produced an “Outside the Lines” story about baseball hall-of-famer Lou Gehrig based on the correspondence he and his wife had with his Mayo Clinic physician in the years following his retirement from baseball and his diagnosis with ALS, the disease that later came to bear his name. The video story and copies of […]
Tags: ALS, Lou Gehrig
February 4, 2009
Mayo Clinic Neurologists Explain Their Interest in ALS
Check out this video to learn why two Mayo Clinic neurologists, Eric Sorenson, M.D., and Brian Crum, M.D., choose to research and treat patients with ALS, which is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Tags: ALS, Dr. Brian Crum, Dr. Eric Sorenson, lou gehrig's disease, neurologist