Former NYC deputy mayor raises millions for ALS research while facing his own mortality

Judy Woodruff:

That adaptation includes an exercise routine to make sure his body can make it through the day, a cough-assist machine to help clear his lungs morning and night, and a regimen of 20 pills a day.

Doctoroff still maintains a busy, albeit scaled-back, schedule. He now rides a Vespa motorbike around his Upper West Side neighborhood to meetings. But most of his effort is focused on Target ALS, his nonprofit raising money for ALS research.

Doctoroff founded the organization in 2013, long before his own diagnosis, but after his father and then his uncle both died of ALS.

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