ALS
In 1995, while training himself for the New York Marathon, he was diagnosed with ALS. He therefore decided to quit his public post. Luca entered a painful phase of his life in which he was seen by many doctors of different clinics. The diagnosis confirmed he was affected by the disease. Luca Coscioni was thus condemned to a progressive deterioration of his muscles which had made him a wheelchair user and that rendered him unable to speak and to eat autonomously.
He decided to go back to political life and in 2000, Dr. Coscioni decided to bring his health situation to the general public as a political case denouncing the lack of appropriate regulation and public funding to allow scientific research, in particular the one on embryonic stem cells, in Italy.
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