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 ...

New York, Jan. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA ... impacting areas such as the hands and feet. Symptoms of CMT typically appear in childhood or early adulthood.

Symptoms of CMT typically appear in childhood or early adulthood ... "As an MDA National Ambassador, I'm honored to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association's mission to empower people living with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is Genetic Testing? Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is a form of MD that develops in teenagers or young adults. Symptoms first become apparent in the hips, then the ...

The FDA has granted fast track designation to DYNE-101, a therapy for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) now in testing in a ...

An investigational higher dose of spinal muscular atrophy drug nusinersen gains attention as the FDA and European Medicines ...

Biogen has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have started ...

In the Phase 1/2 clinical… One year of losmapimod taken twice a day improved or stabilized upper limb function and muscle strength in adults with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD ... the ...