The 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge raised millions of dollars for ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, but while the social media wave gave new life to ALS research, there is still no viable treatment and access to experimental drugs is limited. Battling ALS herself, VICE editor Angelina Fanous meets with patients and top researchers across the U.S. to find out what's being done to tackle this devastating disease and the regulatory hurdles faced by ALS patients and drugmakers alike.

Vice Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Boko Haram & Unnatural Selection
• s04e02 - Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror
• s04e03 - Right to Die
• s04e04 - Beating Blindness & White Collar Weed
• s04e05 - Meathooked & End of Water
• s04e06 - Return to Yemen & Church and States
• s04e07 - Palestine Now & Viva Cuba Libre
• s04e08 - Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories
• s04e09 - The Future of Energy
• s04e10 - Trump in Dubai / China in Africa
• s04e11 - The Deal & City of Lost Children
• s04e12 - The End of Polio & Collateral Damage
• s04e13 - State of Surveillance
• s04e14 - Heroin Crisis & New Age of Nukes
• s04e15 - Flint Water Crisis & Libya on the Brink
• s04e16 - Die Trying
• s04e17 - Student Debt & Fecal Medicine
• s04e18 - The New $pace Race & Closing Gitmo

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.