From Lou Gehrig in 1939 to Eric Dane in 2025, celebrities have publicly dealt with what is now known as ALS for decades.

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...

While in Geneva, Hawking was admitted to hospital with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. His life was in the balance. Doctors could only save Stephen by performing an operation that robbed him ...

In the 20th century, Professor Stephen Hawking made a huge difference to the ... sending messages to his body properly. He was told he only had two years to live. Nevertheless, he carried on ...