The drug is for a small subset of patients. But evidence that breathing and strength can get better for some of them is remarkable for a paralyzing, usually fatal disease. Amanda Sifford of Cape Coral, Fla., had been declining rapidly from A.L.S. before she began receiving infusions of the first therapy for a genetic form of the disease nearly three years ago. Read the full article here.
By Pam Belluck. Pam Belluck spent time with an A.L.S. patient who is being treated with the new therapy in Miami.
Ms. Sifford, with quilt panels she made at home, lost her father, grandfather and 12 other family members to A.L.S. Credit…Eva Marie Uzcategui for The New York Times
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