The Ice Bucket Challenge is being credited with helping to raise significant funds that have allowed researchers to identify a gene found to be one of the most common in people with the deadly disease ...

Wanting to include his kayak in his ALS ice bucket challenge, this participant gets the water dumped on his head, then winds up taking a bucket to the head as well!

Patrick Quinn, whose personal battle with ALS helped power the Ice Bucket Challenge fundraising campaign, died on Sunday at age 37, seven years after his diagnosis, supporters announced on Facebook.