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The ALS challenge
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 02/09/2014
» Everybody has heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge. Everybody knows the campaign’s viral spread started from luminaries like Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, both — after pouring a bucket of ice water on themselves — donating to the ALS Association, a US-based non-governmental organisation founded almost 30 years ago to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or, in short, ALS. The challenge eventually reached Thailand a few weeks ago with famous people soaking themselves, either willingly or unwillingly, and making donations to any charitable organisations. But how many of us know what ALS is?
New hope for the Heart
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 03/07/2012
» There is no question that genetics plays a huge role in coronary artery disease.