Managing osteoporosis and bone health in Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in a high-risk environment for fractures due to ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...

Multidisciplinary coordination across prescribing teams, nursing, laboratory medicine, finance, and infusion centers is crucial for gene therapy delivery in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). WVE ...

Charlie has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative genetic disease that, until recently, has guaranteed death by early adulthood from cardiac or respiratory failure.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, also known as DMD, is a genetic, progressive condition that causes loss of muscle function over time. It’s mostly seen in boys and men, but it can also occur, often ...

For adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, swallowing-related impairments are associated with age, inspiratory muscle strength, and autonomic dysfunction, say the results of a new study. CMR ...

Dr. Jerry Mendell, who co-invented the gene therapy, said "treating boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after seeing their natural history and decline over and over and over for the past 50 ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is rare Duchenne is a rare, progressive disorder in which muscle cells are in a constant state of destruction. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Jaxson DeLeon, 4, is the first patient in Florida to receive a new gene therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He stands here with his doctor, Dr. Omer Abdul Hamid, a pediatric neurologist at ...

ABSTRACT Objectives: To quantify the magnitude of altruism value as applied to a hypothetical new treatment for a rare, severe pediatric disease: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Study Design ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy may no longer be a death sentence. Oct. 17, 2012— -- Although he made it to 29 years old with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Jason Williams was not expected to ...