By Jay Syrmopoulos Baltimore, MD – A grad student at John Hopkins Medical School, in Baltimore, Maryland, has reportedly made a potentially game changing breakthrough in the battle against ALS, which he is partially crediting to the Ice Bucket Challenge, a social media campaign that took Facebook by storm.
Around this time last year the Ice Bucket Challenge became a viral Internet sensation, as people’s newsfeeds were filled with videos of friends pouring buckets of ice water on their heads in an effort to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly know as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The catch was that once nominated for …read more
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