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WELCOME TO THE ALS ASSOCIATION
MINNESOTA CHAPTER! | |
We Are A Local Organization With National Support!
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| Former MN Twins baseball player, Kent Hrbek and his wife, Jeanie. |
The ALS Association is the only not-for-profit voluntary health organization dedicated solely to the fight against ALS.
The Minnesota Chapter was incorporated in 1993 when patients, families and related professionals banded together to share in their struggle with this tragic disease and to provide patient services, commnity education and support of national research. Kent Hrbek, former Minnesota Twins baseball player, and his wife, Jeanie are two of the Minnesota Chapter founders and continue to loyally support us.
Our website offers a lot of information. We welcome you to browse through the many topics, but we never want to forget our main focus - people dealing with the stages of ALS. If you are a person with ALS (PALS) or a caregiver, family member of friend of a person with ALS please go to Patient Services/Local Services to find out how The Minnesota Chapter can help. Please don't hesitate to contact us at any time.
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Time Magazine Recognizes ALS Stem Cell Research as No. 1 Medical Breakthrough in 2008 |
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Time magazine has named the creation of motor neurons using ordinary skins cells from people with ALS as the No. 1 medical breakthrough in 2008. The research was reported last summer by The ALS Association.
“Researchers at Harvard and Columbia reported a milestone experiment in July, using a new method — one that doesn't require embryos at all — to generate the first motor neurons from stem cells in two elderly women with Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS,” wrote Alice Park in the magazines Top 10 Everything of 2008 issue published in December.
“The technique, developed by Kyoto University scientist Shinya Yamanaka in 2006, involves reprogramming a patient's ordinary skin cells to behave like stem cells, then coaxing them into the desired tissue-specific cells,” continued Park. “Using the motor neurons created from ALS patients, scientists can now study the progress of the disease as the affected cells develop, degenerate and die in a dish — something researchers could never do before for such slow-moving conditions. Once scientists understand the development of ALS, they may be able to create more effective treatments, or perhaps even a cure.”
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MINNESOTA CHAPTER SPOTLIGHT! | |
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WORK PLACE GIVING
 The ALS Association thanks employers and employees for their past and continued support of Community Health Charities (CHC), which helps to fund our Chapter programs, services, and research efforts. CHC is an umbrella organization similar to United Way. It is comprised of voluntary health-care organizations, including The ALSA Minnesota Chapter. Workplace giving programs such as this have proven to be successful in raising funds, awareness, recruiting volunteers and identifying those living with ALS. You can designate all or part of your gift to The ALS Association, Minnesota Chapter.
Donations can also be made to The ALS Association, MN Chapter through other Federated Campaigns, other workplace giving options and the United Way’s donor option program. Our Chapter is not always listed in the form, but you can designate your donations to our Chapter by simply writing in our name; The ALS Association, MN Chapter and we will receive the donation.
If your workplace does not offer CHC as a giving option, please speak with your employer about adding this option. We are happy to arrange a brief presentation with the staff at Community Health Charities.
>Read More about Work Place Giving.
>Read 'Donors Making A Difference' on our In The News page.
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BLACK WOODS BLIZZARD TOUR | |
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KOLAR TOYOTA ALS WALLEYE TOURNAMENT |
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KENT HRBEK OUTDOORS/TWINS BASS FISHING CLASSIC | |
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