The D-backs traded away one of the best sluggers in baseball this season and still found a way into the top 10 behind their ...

Stephen Hawking toured a stem-cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist ...

Late actor Christopher Reeve, best known for his role as Superman in the 1970s and '80s, became an activist for spinal cord ...

Some Minnesota lawmakers hope to force the release of Lou Gehrig's medical records, saying they might provide insight into whether the Yankees star died of the disease that came to take his name ...

Tommy and Vickie Smith have faced more than their share of health challenges. Tommy has been living with amyotrophic lateral ...

Lou Gehrig biographer Ray Robinson, sitting in his Upper East Side home, was in the stands at Yankee Stadium 75 years ago when The Iron Horse — dying of a neuroloigcal disease that now bares his ...

Babe Ruth hugs Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. Lou drew a handkerchief from his pocket, blew his nose, wiped his eyes, and advanced to face the various sound devices.

As Cal Ripken Jr. circled the field at Camden Yards to accept congratulations for topping Lou Gehrig's consecutive games streak in 1995, he couldn't help thinking about the ill-fated star.