{"id":2427,"date":"2024-03-01T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T20:08:42","slug":"march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2024\/03\/march-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Bedlack, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Duke ALS Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"March 2024 Spotlight; Rick Bedlack, Neurologist for Duke ALS Clinic, &quot;As an ALS expert, I am trying to do all I can to slow the disease down in my patients and to prevent others from getting it. Smoking increases a person's risk for ALS and also aggravates progression in those who have the disease. Thus, my ALS team and I suggest smoking cessation to the patients and families we see in the Duke ALS Clinic.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em style=\"color: inherit\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;As an ALS expert, I am trying to do all I can to slow the disease down in my patients and to prevent others from getting it. Smoking increases a person&#8217;s risk for ALS and also aggravates progression in those who have the disease. Thus, my ALS team and I suggest smoking cessation to the patients and families we see in the Duke ALS Clinic.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As an ALS expert, I am trying to do all I can to slow the disease down in my patients and to prevent others from getting it. Smoking increases a person&#8217;s risk for ALS and also aggravates progression in those who have the disease. Thus, my ALS team and I suggest smoking cessation to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2024\/03\/march-2024\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rick Bedlack, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Duke ALS Clinic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116605,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/06\/Bedlack-Spotlight-March-2024-1-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"March 2024 Spotlight; Rick Bedlack, Neurologist for Duke ALS Clinic, \"As an ALS expert, I am trying to do all I can to slow the disease down in my patients and to prevent others from getting it. 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