Duchenne muscular dystrophy - a rare, genetic, neuromuscular disease that primarily affects males - leads to degeneration and weakness of muscles. The heart, being a muscle, is not spared by this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Viltepso, an injection treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in patients with a confirmed mutation, ...

Muscle tissue provides the largest store of potentially available protein in the body; it is considerable reduced in children with severe protein energy malnutrition (PEM). After nutritional recovery ...

Aims: Benefits of resistance exercise in elderly people are well documented; however, sustaining these benefits can be difficult and adherence is often poor. Muscular strength and physical function ...

Injections of cardiac progenitor cells help reverse the fatal heart disease caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy and also lead to improved limb strength and movement ability, a new study shows. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interim results also showed reduction of the neurodegenerative biomarker neurofilament light chain. Serious ...

A team of Vanderbilt researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and ...

The least-squares mean difference in the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale-Expanded change from baseline at 12 months was 1.8 points for those 2 to 12 years receiving apitegromab vs placebo.

Some patients with later-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 2 and type 3 had improved motor function when the investigational monoclonal antibody apitegromab was added to their treatment, the ...

New research has identified the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (GLUD1) as a new therapeutic target for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In preclinical DMD mouse models, investigators demonstrated ...