The French pharma firm Servier is buying an experimental muscular dystrophy drug from Edgewise Therapeutics for $1.55 billion ...

When many people think of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), they probably think about the long-running telethon made famous by comedian Jerry Lewis. For decades, the telethon took over the ...

A new study using neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in zebrafish found that certain activities may help strengthen muscles affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe type of muscular ...

Investigators based in Italy recently assessed the impacts of swallowing difficulties in a cohort of patients with DMD who presented to a single hospital with respiratory issues. The Swallowing ...

When you think about children diagnosed with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, the first things that usually come to mind are difficulty walking and the progressive skeletal muscle wasting, ...

Muscular Dystrophies are a group of genetic conditions characterized by muscle weaknesses. They are genetic conditions and have different sub-categories depending on which area of muscle mass is ...

NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the National Institute of Neurological ...

Blacksburg, Va. - A $1 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health will fund research at Virginia Tech to identify ...

This is the story about an Indianapolis neurologist, Charles Bonsett, M.D., who believes he discovered an effective treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy over 50 years ago. Unfortunately, his ...

A University of Alberta researcher's past work has led to a new drug being approved for use in the United States to treat patients suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The drug, ...