The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in ...
Genetic testing, often via a blood sample, can confirm a muscular dystrophy diagnosis. It can also identify specific gene mutations to help guide treatment and determine whether or not someone is a ...
His parents Stephen and Jenny have asked Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust to approve the use of drug givinostat, which they hoped would give their son a "relatively normal childhood". Dr Jeff ...
Christine McSherry is a registered nurse and founder of Jett Foundation. On Sunday at 1 a.m. Eastern time, an announcement went out from the first-generation gene therapy company for Duchenne muscular ...
BridgeBio said an experimental therapy for a rare form of muscular dystrophy succeeded in a key trial, potentially setting up ...
Leah Messer is opening up about navigating her daughter Ali's muscular dystrophy as the 15-year-old takes a big step in her life: high school. In an interview with TooFab ahead of the new season of ...
A San Diego community upgraded an adaptive van for Eddie Garcia, a boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, providing a motorized ramp to ease his mobility challenges.