Baseball's original iron man, Lou Gehrig is best known as
Babe Ruth's most outstanding cohort in the center of the great Yankees' "Murder's Row" lineup, and for his courageous fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease which would afterward become popularly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Gehrig, among the best first basemen in baseball history, played his entire career with the Yankees. Gehrig's career spanned the peak of Ruth's prowess to the budding of
Joe DiMaggio as a superstar. Gehrig's Yankee teams won World Series in 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Lou Gehrig was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1939.
A new finding by researchers at Hopkins's School of Medicine has elucidated a little-known molecular pathway in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Publ.Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:37:43 GMTThe Gitler lab is focused on understanding, at a mechanistic level, the cellular consequences of protein misfolding in order to find potential strategies for therapeutic intervention in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Publ.Date : Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:05:39 GMTSPRINGFIELD, Mass., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, U.S. researchers said.
Publ.Date : Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:23:49 GMT
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Hollywood legend Gary Cooper played Lou in the story of his life, "The Pride of the Yankees."
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