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 ...

Research to improve our understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and the development of new therapies, has previously relied on mouse models. However, physiological differences between the ...

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) ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Berglund is director of the RNA Institute at the University at Albany, which recently won a $6.5 million federal grant with ...

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, ...

The University of Washington has been named one of three "centers of excellence" for research into muscular dystrophy by the National Institutes of Health and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

A new study using neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in zebrafish found that certain activities may help strengthen muscles affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe type of muscular ...

Jeremy Carroll refused to let Duchenne muscular dystrophy stop him from living a full and productive life. Diagnosed in 1979 at age 5, Jeremy was reliant on a wheelchair by 8, and later, dependent on ...

The East Stroudsburg University campus community is rallying behind a student’s effort to raise funding for muscular dystrophy that was inspired by her bond with a 9-year-old boy battling the ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — A father of two sons diagnosed with muscular dystrophy is organizing a cornhole tournament this weekend to raise money for research and awareness of the condition. Stephen Gilbert, ...