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1. www.abc.net.au › news › healthStephen Hawking's ALS and how he outlived his prognosis by ...

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   Mar 14, 2018 · Professor Stephen Hawking in 1993, 30 years after he was told he likely only had a couple of years to live. ... more areas become involved and function is progressively lost. Eventually paralysis ...

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2. www.nbcnews.com › health › health-careStephen Hawking had ALS for 55 years. How did he do it?

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   Mar 16, 2018 · Hawking was diagnosed in 1963, when he was just 21 years old. He survived for 55 years with the incurable condition. “His survival is longer than most,” said Dr. Jeffrey Elliott, chief of the ...

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4. time.com › 5199001How Did Stephen Hawking Live So Long with ALS? | TIME

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   Mar 14, 2018 · March 14, 2018 1:52 PM EDT. T he world lost one of its most brilliant scientific minds Wednesday, when legendary physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Hawking’s cause of death was likely ...

5. www.wbur.org › 2018/03/19 › stephen-hawking-alsWhy Stephen Hawking Was Able To Live So Long With ALS

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   Mar 19, 2018 · "Somebody like Stephen Hawking had access to 24/7 care for most of his life, which a lot of ALS patients do not. And that really helps with getting in front of things like opportunistic infections ...

6. www.independent.co.uk › news › healthStephen Hawking death: How did physicist live so long with ...

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   Hawking’s intellectual achievements have become almost mythical in the face of the disease which progressively shut down his limbs, confining him to a wheelchair, paralysing his muscles and ...

7. www.pbs.org › newshour › scienceHow did Stephen Hawking live 55 years with ALS? | PBS News

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   Jan 9, 2012 · Stephen Hawking turns 70 on Sunday, beating the odds of a daunting diagnosis by nearly half a century. The famous theoretical physicist has helped to bring his ideas about black holes and quantum ...

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   How long did Stephen Hawking live after ALS?

   • Stephen Hawking died last week at the age of 76 — 55 years after he was diagnosed with ALS. Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Steve Perrin, president and chief scientific officer at the ALS Therapy Development Institute, about why Hawking was able to live so long after his diagnosis. On the rarity of Stephen Hawking's case "It's very rare.

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   How did Stephen Hawking die?

   • Andrew Cowie / AFP - Getty Images Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at the age of 76, had lived with the crippling disease ALS for 55 years. How did he do it? Probably in no small part because he was rich, famous and extremely well cared for, experts said.

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   How long did Stephen Hawking live?

   • Professor Stephen Hawking in 1993, 30 years after he was told he likely only had a couple of years to live. (Reuters) When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1963, few thought he would live more than a couple of years.

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   How long did Professor Hawking live after he was diagnosed?

   • The details Professor Hawking didn't want to ask for are very grim. The average life expectancy of someone with MND is between two and three years, most people die within five. Professor Hawking lived for more than five decades after he was diagnosed. But his health was affected significantly within a few years of his diagnosis.

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   How did Professor Hawking get ALS?

   • Professor Hawking had just turned 21 when he was diagnosed with a very rare slow-progressing form of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease (MND). He was at the end of his time at Oxford when he started to notice early signs of his disease. He was getting more clumsy and fell over several times without knowing why.

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   Does Stephen Hawking have 24/7 care for ALS patients?

   • On the nature of the care "Somebody like Stephen Hawking had access to 24/7 care for most of his life, which a lot of ALS patients do not. And that really helps with getting in front of things like opportunistic infections, in particular.

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9. phys.org › news › 2018-03-life-hawking-defied-alsA life: Hawking defied ALS to become pre-eminent physicist

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   Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died early Wednesday, March 18, 2018, a University of Cambridge spokesman said. He was 76 ...