Imagine having cancer, knowing there is chemo available, but because it hasn't helped 100% of the patients it was given to, you don't even get a chance to try it. Doesn't seem right does it? Welcome to #ALS and the fight for #NUROWN We deserve better!
Today, in an amazing victory for the Unite to End MND and the Sunday Express Fund the Fight to Cure MND campaigns, Boris Johnson has told us he’s given the go ahead for £50 million funding to research a cure for Motor Neurone Disease - like @DoddieWeir5 we are over the moon!
People with ALS can’t wait for lengthy drug reviews and access negotiations - each day is loss - loss of function and loss of life. Canada must do better. @GovCanHealth@ALSCanada
If 1,000 Canadians were trapped deep in a cave with rising waters and diminishing oxygen, how much would we spend to keep them alive and rescue them?
$10M? $25M? $50M? More?
Every year 1,000 Canadians ARE trapped in a cave like this. It’s called ALS. We must fund ALS.
The right to die by assisted suicide has made it to Canada’s top court twice (1993 & 2015).
BOTH cases were brought by someone with ALS.
We have invested so much in Canada on assisted suicide laws and infrastructure.
And so little on ALS research and treatment development.
This was the headline from 2016. Canadian families are still waiting for action to be taken. #ItsTime for Canada to join the global movement to #EndALS@JustinTrudeau@PattyHajdu
Trudeau urges support for ALS research as Commons honours Belanger https://t.co/Via0pP65iA
Big thank you to @CBCHamilton@CBCNews for sharing this story online and on the World Report that brings attention to the issues of access to promising therapies for the ALS community. https://t.co/nMDcUrZsWI #EndALS
#BREAKING: ~1,000 Canadians died of ALS in 2020 and another
~1,000 Canadians received a new diagnosis.
These numbers are the same as last year and the years before that.
2020 also marks yet another year that Canada’s governments took no meaningful action to combat ALS.
The ALS patient community in Canada will not be quiet anymore. Even on Christmas Eve. Watch the news clip about @NormanMacIsaac and the need for an accelerated treatment approval process here.
https://t.co/lacnCHBMla
“Rolling review” and “interim expedited approval”: used by HC to approve the vaccine based on “solid evidence”. “Solid evidence” also now exists for amylyx to treat ALS: let’s go HC - you are on a roll and can do the same thing for ALS
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There was a 1st survivor of HIV.
There was a 1st survivor of polio.
There was a 1st survivor of then terminal cancers.
There will be a 1st survivor of ALS.
Pass. It. On.