Fort Report: ALS
(WorldNews Health)

Dear Friend, Our country is becoming increasingly familiar with the term `Zoom call.` Let me tell you about a special one. Recently, several hundred persons deeply suffering from ALS, and their caregivers and friends, joined me and another Member of Congress to discuss our legislative initiative. ALS is an aggressive degenerative disease for which there is no cure. It is sometimes known as Lou Gehrig`s Disease. When I was about eight years old, I read a book about the great Yankees first baseman. It stayed with me. Fast forward decades later, this cruel disease has swept in and affected my own family. And we quickly learned about the profound trauma it`s caused so many other Americans....