The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) today announced more than $2.7 million in new research grants to advance groundbreaking discoveries across multiple neuromuscular diseases, including ...

An online petition signed by more than 200,000 people is demanding a halt to a taxpayer-funded research project at Texas A&M University that studies muscular dystrophy’s debilitating effects in golden ...

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 ...

Muscular dystrophy is a set of genetic diseases that cause muscles to become progressively weaker. Many forms of the disease ...

This announcement follows a bipartisan letter that Senator Collins and a group of nine members of Congress sent last month to ...

Research at Texas A&M is giving families whose children face Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy renewed hope as the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the school's research for human clinical ...

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) ...

When many people think of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), they probably think about the long-running telethon made famous by comedian Jerry Lewis. For decades, the telethon took over the ...

Sara Martin, who was raised in Nahant, is currently training to run the 2026 Boston Marathon to bring awareness to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She has raised $4,807 thus far. For Martin, the ...

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, ...

Zane Jacobs is part of a double-blind University of Kansas trial to find a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Zane sometimes uses his power scooter to pull brothers Taegan (center) and Aidan ...