Columnist Patrick Moeschen turns to classic writers and poets to express how he is choosing hope in life with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

"My medicine is making me stronger," 7-year-old Hudson Sanford says after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a gene therapy that could potentially treat a rare and currently fatal ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness due to the alterations of a protein called dystrophin that helps keep muscle cells ...

A multidisciplinary team, usually led by a neurologist, treats muscular dystrophy (MD). They’ll tailor the type of treatment you receive to your specific needs. MD is a group of conditions that lead ...

Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a disease that affects certain muscles. Individuals with CMD may experience symptoms such as muscle weakness and joint problems. “Congenital” means present since ...

New research has identified the specific biological mechanism behind the muscle dysfunction found in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and further shows that calcium channel blockers can reverse these ...

"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 ...

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

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...