For Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, muscle biopsy may show whether dystrophin, a muscle protein, is missing or abnormal, and DNA testing is used to analyze the condition of the related gene.
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.
Muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis can affect mobility, breathing, speaking, and muscle control. But they have distinct causes, affect different parts of the body, and have other differences.
In an eagerly anticipated decision, the Food and Drug Administration Thursday approved the first gene therapy for muscular dystrophy. "Today's approval addresses an urgent unmet medical need and is an ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light for the first gene therapy that treats a rare form of muscular dystrophy to be used in most people who have the disease and a certain ...
BridgeBio said an experimental therapy for a rare form of muscular dystrophy succeeded in a key trial, potentially setting up ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Those who participated in “The 13th annual Michael 2025 Step For A Cure 5k Run And Walk” at the FDR Boardwalk and promenade were there to make a difference in the fight against ...
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