Tiffany Fransen's lifelong clumsiness turned out to be a rare neurodegenerative disease. Friedreich’s ataxia leads to muscle ...

The US HHS has added Duchenne muscular dystrophy and metachromatic leukodystrophy to newborn screening, citing benefits of early detection and access to FDA-approved treatments.

Inspired by his father, Grandview High School student Josue Clara started a nonprofit called Beyond Rare to build awareness ...

High-intensity interval training outperforms standard home exercise in improving fitness for patients with inflammatory ...

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, has developed an innovative method, called TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) recognizes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Amgen's UPLIZNA(R) (inebilizumab-cdon) for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative method known as TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical functions of proteins through their ...

TULSA, Okla. — A local couple is fighting to get their four-month-old baby treatment for his rare muscular disease. They’ve been rejected from the only hospital they know can help. “Finally that ...

I've been blogging for a few years about misophonia, an auditory/neurological disorder that I have advocated for because I and (more importantly) one of my adult children are affected. Recently, at ...

The most useful biomarker for extraocular muscle enlargement in thyroid eye disease (TED) is unclear. According to this study, higher thyroid-stimulating antibody (TSAb) levels and older age were ...