Patient Resources
Get Healthy!
Results for search "Muscular Dystrophy".
Health News Results - 4
In Early Research, Heart Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Muscular Dystrophy
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- January 3, 2024
- Full Page
A regularly prescribed class of heart medications might be capable of treating one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy, a new study in mice suggests.
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by abnormal RNA that affects the function of calcium channel recepto...
FDA Approves First Gene Therapy to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
- June 23, 2023
- Full Page
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the drug Elevidys, the first gene therapy for the treatment of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
The groundbreaking treatment will not be cheap: Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. said it would ch...
Early Promise for Therapy Against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Robert Preidt
- January 28, 2021
- Full Page
An experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy shows promise, a small study suggests.
The severe form of muscular dystrophy -- which affects about one in 3,500 males born each year in the United States -- causes muscles to progressively weaken and lose the ...
More 'Buyer Beware' Warnings for Unregulated Stem Cell Clinics
- Dennis Thompson
- August 1, 2019
- Full Page
Folks who get treatment from a stem cell clinic could be spending their money on what amounts to snake oil, a new study warns.
Doctors administering stem cells might have no expertise in the condition they're trying to treat, and the cells themselves might be derived f...