wypr: : Looking for a cure (2007-08-31)

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Looking for a cure

A conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein… by Aaron Henkin ALS sufferers are told by doctors that they have two to five years to live. But neuroscientist Jeffrey Rothstein has made it his life's work to extend that span as much as possible. Dr. Rothstein hopes that in his lifetime we'll discover a way to halt the progression of ALS, and he joins us for a talk about how it might happen.