Nancy Frates' son Pete was captain of every team he ever joined. And there were many. So when Pete was diagnosed with ALS at age 27 and vowed to change the trajectory of the fatal disease, she trusted ...

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was one of the most viral trends of 2014. All over the internet, there were videos of celebrities, sports teams, seniors and kids alike dumping bowls of ice water on their ...

PETE FRATES WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALS AT 27 WHEN HE AND A COUPLE OF FRIENDS DISCOVERED THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE. PETE KNEW IT WAS THE SOCIAL MEDIA VEHICLE HE’D BEEN LOOKING FOR. I’M GOING TO CHANGE THE ...

The Ice Bucket Challenge is back, but this time for a new cause. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that went mega-viral in the summer of 2014 had more than 17 million people on social media, and even ...

I still remember the cool rush of ice water splashing over my head in summer 2014, my body bracing itself for inevitable shivers. The original “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” was inescapable — if you weren ...

A decade-old social media trend was broadly revived on TikTok this week, as users are challenging one another to dump an ice bucket on their head for mental health awareness, mirroring the original ...

Last month the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge celebrated its 10th anniversary. The fundraising idea was the brainchild of both the late Pete Frates — a Massachusetts native, lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, ...

Students from the University of South Carolina started a recent campaign using the ice bucket challenge to raise mental health awareness Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

The viral Ice Bucket Challenge is back, but this time it is not raising awareness for the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Instead, it is shining a light on mental ...

I still remember the cool rush of ice water splashing over my head in summer 2014, my body bracing itself for inevitable shivers. The original “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” was inescapable — if you weren ...