Rut Perez is a highly vulnerable wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy. Hamas has taken 150 hostages and is holding them in Gaza, following the terrorist attacks on Israel. A disabled 17-year-old ...

Highlights from the 2025 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Conference include clinical updates, expert insights, and ...

As 2025 draws to a close, columnist Shalom Lim looks back at the highs and lows he's experienced this year while living with ...

When Alice Wong was a baby newly diagnosed with spinal muscular dystrophy, a doctor told her parents — Chinese immigrants who’d settled in Indianapolis in the 1970s — that she may not live past the ...

Young people from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign are to investigate whether UK universities are “restricting the futures” of disabled people by failing to provide enough support and proper facilities ...

More than 30 types of muscular dystrophy have been identified. They all cause problems with movement due to muscle protein defects caused by genetic mutations. Muscular dystrophy is a group of ...

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 ...

Panelists discuss how recent advancements in muscular dystrophy treatment have evolved toward truly disease-modifying therapies using gene replacement, antisense oligonucleotides, and gene transfer ...

Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is a type of muscular dystrophy, a genetic condition that weakens and damages muscles. It can worsen with age. However, its symptoms are less severe than those of ...

Darius was a rapper suffering from DMD and advocating for disability rights. — -- Darius Weems, the inspiring rapper and dynamic disability rights advocate who suffered from Duchene muscular ...

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