"My medicine is making me stronger," 7-year-old Hudson Sanford says after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

DICKSON CITY, Pa. — The Eagle Hose Company in Dickson City on Saturday, November 16 hosted a benefit for the Hetzel family as they support their son Ryan who's battling an aggressive form of Muscular ...

Darren Ormiston, a 9-year-old boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suddenly screamed and lept from his wheelchair, running to a doctor with his hands in the air. Darren wasn’t in distress, just ...

Gene therapies have extended survival in muscular dystrophy, requiring improved care transitions from pediatric to adult systems. Current systems lack adequate staffing, specialists, and communication ...

The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

Pathologic changes of the X-chromosome gene for dystrophin give rise to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and dystrophin -- which minimizes muscle fiber loss due to sarcolemma contraction damage when ...

Researchers combined advanced imaging techniques and theoretical physics to observe and explain how nanoclusters of the protein emerin form inside living cells. The study uncovers the molecular 'rules ...