The three-day annual fundraising event celebrated a weekend of wine, benefiting efforts to cure Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

A Virginia father and military veteran is facing a life that is changing faster than his body can keep up with, as a rare ...

Working with Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy and the Duchenne Registry on patient identification and trial awareness efforts ~15,000 children ...

A mother's persistence helps revive an all-but-abandoned drug class and could aid her son and thousands of others with ...

The first gene therapy for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The therapy can be used in 4- and 5-year-olds with the degenerative ...

Tributes poured in for Gilbert Gottfried on Tuesday after news broke that he died in Manhattan. The 67-year-old comedian’s family shared on Twitter that he passed away “after a long illness.” ...

Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve a progressive loss of muscle mass and consequent loss of strength. In general, the condition is caused by genetic variations that interfere with ...

I’ve been fighting Duchenne muscular dystrophy for 40 years.

Crews with the Catoosa County Fire Department are collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association through their ...

Brody is a 10-year-old from Victoria who is fighting the daily challenges of living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Dooley, ...

The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...