A Fond du Lac woman faces felony child neglect charges after her 12-year-old son, who had muscular dystrophy, died of ...

Muscular Dystrophy Association Marks Rare Disease Day by Spotlighting Community Stories Driving Progress in Research, Care, ...

$48.7 billion for NIH, a 1% increase that helps sustain biomedical research critical to rare disease progress. The funding includes positive policy language limiting forward funding of grants and ...

Disability advocate TaLisha Gryzb is a mother of four living with muscular dystrophy who educates viewers about her ...

KYOTO--Utilizing genome editing technology, a team of researchers has developed a much more effective treatment for a certain ...

"Muscular dystrophy can take many things from me, but it will not take away my happiness, nor will it take away my faith." ...

"High clinical suspicion is important for this population of patients. Since muscular dystrophy is progressive in nature, monitoring disease progression in these patients is critical for timing ...

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) ...

The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in ...

While it’s established that Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes a loss of muscle mass and strength, few studies have examined the gastrointestinal issues tied to DMD. Initial fractures are the ...