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Actor Eric Dane called for more funding for ALS research in a new video released on Monday, just months after he revealed he was diagnosed with the condition, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old actor, known for his roles on ABC\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy <\/em>and HBO\u2019s Euphoria<\/em>, spoke in a video shared by I am ALS<\/a>, a community-led group dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for the neurological disorder.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m Eric Dane. An actor, a father and now a person living with ALS,\u201d he says in the video. \u201cFor over a century, ALS has been incurable, and we\u2019re done accepting the status quo. We need the fastest path to a cure.\u201d<\/p>\n The video was posted the day after Dane missed the Emmy Awards, where he was scheduled to present a Grey\u2019s Anatomy <\/em>tribute<\/a> with his former costar Jesse Williams.<\/p>\n Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)<\/a> is a nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control. Over time, people with ALS start to lose their ability to walk, talk, eat and breathe, the ALS Association<\/a> says. There is no cure for ALS, and patients usually live three to five years after the diagnosis, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association<\/a>, but there are some medications and physical therapy treatments that can help slow the disease\u2019s progression.<\/p>\n In the video, Dane says the I am ALS group wants to raise $1 billion over the next three years to help patients and find a cure.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so much more to learn, more to do, and we have to do it now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n The video was posted the day after he missed the Emmy Awards, where he was scheduled to present a Grey\u2019s Anatomy <\/em>tribute<\/a> with his former costar Jesse Williams.<\/p>\n Dane has not spoken publicly since late June, when he praised health insurance companies<\/a> for recent reforms at a news conference in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n Dane announced in April<\/a> that he had been diagnosed with ALS and said he would still continue working. A month later, he sat down with Diane Sawyer for an interview<\/a> that aired on Good Morning America, <\/em>where he discussed his diagnosis and how he had already lost function in his right arm.<\/p>\n \u201cI wake up every day, and I\u2019m immediately reminded that this is happening,\u201d he told Sawyer.<\/em> \u201cIt\u2019s not a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor Eric Dane called for more funding for ALS research in a new video released on Monday, just months after he revealed he was diagnosed with the condition, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The 52-year-old actor, known for his roles on ABC\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy and HBO\u2019s Euphoria, spoke in a video shared by I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2028391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[373791,367407,319835],"class_list":["post-2028390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-als","tag-eric-dane","tag-greys-anatomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/We-need-the-fastest-path-to-a-cure.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}