The ALS Association Marks ALS Awareness Month With Focus on the Moments That Matter
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WASHINGTON, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ May is ALS Awareness Month, and people living with the disease are part of a new ALS Association campaign to educate the public about the urgent need to find treatments and a cure. As part of the Every Moment Matters campaign, people living with ALS, their caregivers and families will share moments and explain why they are part of The ALS Association s fight for effective treatments and a cure.
To mark ALS Awareness Month in May, The ALS Association launched its Every Moment Matters campaign to engage the public in the fight for effective treatments and a cure. Also known as Lou Gehrig s Disease, ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Eventually, people with ALS lose the ability to walk, speak, and eventually, to breathe. Here, Eric Jurado
The crackdown comes after a city report found that 86 of the 138 scooter-related medical incidents the Scottsdale Fire Department responded to in 2019 occurred inside the one-mile-square safety zone bordered by Camelback Road to the north, Miller Road to the east, Osborn Road to the south, and 68th Street to the west.
The report also found that only around 12 percent of rides occurred during those hours, but nearly a quarter of scooter emergencies did.
Unsurprisingly, HonorHealth, which operates the local emergency room, reported that 66 of the 112 patients it saw due to scooter trauma incidents involved alcohol. More than 60 percent of the patients were men and the average age was 24, although one was 66 years old.