Researchers at Kumamoto University in Japan have discovered that iron supplements may help reduce muscle damage and improve ...

Muscular Dystrophy Association Marks Rare Disease Day by Spotlighting Community Stories Driving Progress in Research, Care, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Neuromuscular diseases are conditions that affect your nerve and muscle function. Neuromuscular disorders affect your peripheral nerves—the nerves outside your brain and spinal cord. Types of ...