A Concordia-led research team has created one of the first reference charts showing how children's adipose (fat) and muscle ...

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) ...

Some children in Northern Ireland who live with a severe form of muscular dystrophy will be able to access new medication on the health service, BBC News understands. The move from the Belfast Health ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – It’s being called a pioneering event that holds great promise for children who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy. After decades of research, animal studies, and human trials, ...

The New York Medicaid program won't cover gene therapies for children who suffer from muscular dystrophy and just want to walk.

Camp specializes to needs of children with muscular dystrophy, allows them to thriveA camp put on by the Muscular Dystrophy Association comes to Hamilton, Ohio, every year for a week of activities and ...

The greatest reduction in skeletal muscle mass was in the lower extremities, a new report shows. Low skeletal muscle mass may be an early manifestation of fabry disease (FD), according to a new report ...

Duchenne type muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common hereditary muscular disease among children, leaving them wheelchair-bound before the age of twelve and reducing life expectancy. Researchers ...

The muscle weakness and coordination problems sometimes seen in patients with neonatal diabetes – a rare, inherited form of diabetes – are caused by problems in the brain rather than the muscles, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the time of last follow up, 82.6% of children born with SMA type 1 from 2016 on were still alive. Of the 140 ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle weakness. SMA usually affects children, and is typically diagnosed in the first 18 months of life. In its most ...

A retrospective review of children with neuromuscular disorders and confirmed COVID-19 infection found the vast majority of patients experienced asymptomatic or mild disease, with no reported cases of ...