University of Manchester scientists have mapped the mutations in the tiny protein chains that cause a subtype of muscular ...

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

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 ...

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 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.

Managing osteoporosis and bone health in Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in a high-risk environment for fractures due to disease-related loss of muscle and movement, adverse effects of ...

After decades of research, gene therapy has been approved for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative muscle disease diagnosed each year in about 1 in 3,500 newborns, almost all boys.

Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of death in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, with roughly 90% developing a dilated cardiomyopathy by age 18. 2,3 Cardiomyocyte degeneration results in ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration Monday approved the first drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare and lethal muscle weakening disorder that affects about 15,000 Americans.

Deflazacort, a newly FDA-approved drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has an $89,000-a-year price tag. It has been put on hold because of an uproar over drug prices.