Muscular dystrophy News

FRIDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have succeeded in using gene therapy to restore some muscle function in patients with a certain type of muscular dystrophy. This is the first time such a feat has been performed in humans, state the au...

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that a drug used to treat pneumonia might serve as an effective treatment against a type of muscular dystrophy. They tested the drug pentamidine in mice and found that it appears to combat g...

TUESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Injecting a therapeutic molecule into muscle appears to jump-start the production of a crucial protein that's missing in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, British researchers report. The treatment so f...

TUESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A new gene mutation linked to muscular dystrophy has been identified by Japanese researchers. The finding came from genetic analyses of five people with muscular dystrophy and degeneration of their fat tissue, ...

THURSDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found a way to interfere with a stray genetic process critical in the development and progression of a major form of muscular dystrophy. The strategy, described by researchers from the Universi...

WEDNESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News)-- English scientists may have found a way to detect muscular dystrophy in the womb or shortly after birth, giving doctors more time to treat the disease before symptoms develop. Focusing on key proteins, Univers...