Expert diagnostic services and treatment are provided for patients with common and rare disorders of the muscular system, including muscular dystrophies ... This may include information related to ...

But with such screening, why hasn't the disease allele frequency gone down? Scientists have been searching for ways to cure DMD for as long as they have known about the disease. Today, based on ...

Collagen VI-related muscular dystrophies (COL6-RDs) are a group of rare genetic disorders that primarily affect muscle function and structure. These conditions arise from mutations in the genes ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) - A quarter of a million Americans are living with muscular dystrophy or a related neuromuscular .

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat ageing-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases ..

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be $ ...