The symptoms of myotonic dystrophy may be obvious from birth or they can develop later -- during the teenage or adult years. Like other forms of muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy leads to ...

A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1—the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular ...

making it the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy. We believe that the market opportunity for a new DM1 therapy is very attractive, given the important unmet medical need and the lack of an ...

What Is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Muscular dystrophies are ... The disease almost always affects boys, and symptoms usually begin early in childhood. Children with DMD have a hard time standing ...

Duchenne muscular ... appear in adults later in life, DMD affects people from birth. Babies born with DMD begin to show signs ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition ... Typically, a carrier of DMD will not show symptoms. However, some individuals may show mild symptoms, such as muscle weakness.

Baylor Medicine’s General Adult Genetics Clinic sees patients 18 years or older ... Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Williams syndrome and velocardiofacial syndrome. The clinic is ...

Jeffrey Donald Carcic, age 62, passed away due to complications of Adult-Onset Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy late in the evening on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. He was born on February 13, 1962 ...

Prophylactic cardiac treatment may prolong survival in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), but only ... medications has been shown to delay the onset of LVD, epidemiological investigation into ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has selected Lily Sander from Charlotte, North Carolina, as its 2025 MDA National Ambassador. Sander joins MDA National Ambassador Ira Walker from Fort ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial investigating Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec), a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, did not achieve its primary endpoint, according to findings ...