Two interconnected themes — community and hope — dominated conversations at this year's MDA Engage symposium in Dallas.

For columnist Betty Vertin's 19-year-old son, Chance, becoming a caregiver to his brothers has benefited the entire family.

Choosing assistive equipment for a neuromuscular disease patient starts with understanding goals, environment, and needs, ...

Struggling with increasing leg weakness due to FSHD progression, columnist Robin Stemple turned to what he calls the "knee ...

A new gene therapy approach safely restored the production of emerin, the protein missing in people with X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD), in both a mouse model and human muscle cells ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google Last Friday, my girlfriend, Amanda Yip, and I celebrated the ...

Managing my condition is a full-time job. Muscular dystrophy (MD) has woven its way into more than just my muscles. It takes a mental toll as time goes by. The hours tick away. The cells tick away. I ...

Recognized as the leading international meeting dedicated to neuromuscular diseases, the conference convenes renowned researchers, clinicians, affiliated health care providers, academicians, advocates ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go-ahead for a mid-stage clinical trial testing the oral therapy forazapadin — designed to protect muscles and potentially enhance their ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google It seems to be a theme in our lives: Lifts and elevators work ...

Boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who switched from a placebo to the experimental cell therapy deramiocel as part of a clinical trial showed smaller declines in measures of ...

Lily Sander will never forget what it was like to meet other people with neuromuscular diseases the first time she attended Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Summer Camp. Living with ...