US FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation to Atossa Therapeutics’ (Z)-endoxifen to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Seattle Monday, January 19, 2026, 17:00 Hrs [IST] Atossa Therap ...

Tributes flooded the internet for Gilbert Gottfried after his family shared on Tuesday via Twitter that he died following “a long illness.” Since then, there has been more awareness around muscular ...

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) ...

A specific gene may play a key role in new treatments that prevent muscle in the body from breaking down in serious muscle diseases, muscular dystrophies. A specific gene may play a key role in new ...

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

"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 ...

Data are scarce regarding the benefits of strength training for muscular dystrophies, for which there are no cures. Strength training to ameliorate the effects of muscular dystrophies (MDs) was found ...

ST. LOUIS — As far as 10-year-old Dean Alesi is concerned, the best gift his parents ever gave him was his little brother. "Dean has wanted a brother or sister since he was like 3 or 4," his mom Amber ...

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, ...

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 ...

DICKSON CITY, Pa. — The Eagle Hose Company in Dickson City on Saturday, November 16 hosted a benefit for the Hetzel family as they support their son Ryan who's battling an aggressive form of Muscular ...