Distal spinal muscular atrophy (DSMA) is a rare genetic disease that causes a loss of muscle movement. It affects muscles further away from the center of the body, such as the hands, feet, and legs.

In research published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, investigators have developed a brief, reliable, and valid ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a debilitating genetic disorder that eventually leaves patients in a wheelchair. In a new study, researchers have found that an existing cancer drug shows promise ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first gene therapy for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in children from age 4 through 5 years of age. Pediatric patients who ...

Getting out of a chair shouldn't be a struggle. Yet for many older adults, simple everyday movements like this become ...

A person may inherit the genetic changes responsible for muscular dystrophy. These genetic changes can also occur due to spontaneous genetic mutations. In either case, the disease is not preventable.

After boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy received cardiac progenitor cell infusions, medical tests indicated that the patients' hearts appeared improved, results from a new study show ...

A rare and fatal form of muscular dystrophy has long posed a devastating diagnosis for children, primarily affecting boys. This genetic condition robs them of their ability to walk, breathe and live ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric condition characterized by a fear of weight gain and reduced calorie consumption that can result in dangerous weight loss.

A 31-year-old man ignored what he thought was gym-related muscle pain, only to learn it was an early sign of a serious and ...

Results from a randomized, double-blind trial in diabetes-free adults living with obesity and high cardiovascular disease risk showed that liraglutide was associated with a reduction in both muscle ...