The most commonly diagnosed form of muscular dystrophy, Duchenne is a genetic disease that affects mostly boys and causes progressive muscle weakness over time. Its early physical signs tend to be ...

Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that make muscles weaker and less flexible over time. It is caused by a problem in the genes that control how the body keeps muscles healthy. For some people, ...

This quick alphabetical guide will help you feel more confident when talking about muscular dystrophy with your doctor and loved ones. Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of genetic diseases ...

A recent clinical trial has shown that cellular therapy is safe and effective in stopping the deterioration of upper limb and heart functions in patients with late-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A ...

Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) muscular dystrophies are hereditary diseases linked on X chromosome. Thus, manifestation of skeletal muscle wasting, but also cardiomyopathy occurs in males, while ...

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 ...

A clinical trial at UC Davis Health and six other sites showed that a cellular therapy offers promise for patients with late-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder causing ...