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It’s been two weeks since Lisa Stockman Mauriello passed away and a lingering question, in my mind, is whether she died in vain.

I’d like to think not.

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During her final months, the 52-year-old former public relations executive battled Biogen, one of the world’s largest biotech companies, for access to an experimental treatment for ALS, a fatal neurological disease that gradually causes muscle weakness and paralysis.

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