An experimental RNA therapy from Avidity Biosciences has early clinical trial results showing it reduced by half the expression of a gene at the root of a rare, inherited form of muscular dystrophy ...
Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a disease that affects certain muscles. Individuals with CMD may experience symptoms such as muscle weakness and joint problems. “Congenital” means present since ...
These are the year's top 10 most-read muscular dystrophy news stories we published last year, each with a brief description.
In boys with DMD, executive skills such as self-control begin to lag around age 8, but show signs of partial catch-up by 14, ...
A PepGen drug in development for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) has encouraging early human data that suggest it could be a better treatment than other medicines in clinical testing for this rare, ...
Decreased strain and rotation were hypothesized to be associated with the presence and extent of left ventricular myocardial fibrosis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Investigators recently ...
HOUSTON – There’s a new type of therapy that can help kids with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects one in 3,600 male births, and it can lead to immobility, and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Safety and tolerability of losmapimod were assessed in 108 people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.