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 ...

An online petition signed by more than 200,000 people is demanding a halt to a taxpayer-funded research project at Texas A&M University that studies muscular dystrophy’s debilitating effects in golden ...

Research at Texas A&M is giving families whose children face Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy renewed hope as the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the school's research for human clinical ...

An international team of researchers has made a second critical advance in determining the cause of a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD. An ...

Muscle tissue damage appears when muscular dystrophy is induced in a mouse model (middle). But when researchers block the function of two genes that drive unwanted mitochondrial pore formation (right) ...

Students are working to spread awareness and raise money to fund research for neuromuscular diseases through the Muscular Dystrophy Society at UCLA. Muscular dystrophies are rare muscle disorders that ...

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, ...

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 ...

SEATTLE – Nov. 11, 2012 – An international research team co-led by a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified two genetic factors behind the third most common form of ...

Zane Jacobs is part of a double-blind University of Kansas trial to find a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Zane sometimes uses his power scooter to pull brothers Taegan (center) and Aidan ...

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 ...