Posters presented at the 2025 Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical & Scientific Conference highlight the complex care ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers combined advanced imaging techniques and theoretical physics to observe and explain how nanoclusters of the protein emerin form inside living cells. The study uncovers ...

Researchers focused on Myotonic Dystrophy 1 heart problems are testing a novel approach to restore normal function. Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular ...

Patients with myotonic dystrophy have smaller hearts, and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures and pulse rates. They have impaired autonomic reflexes, measured by orthostatic, Valsalva ...

A University of Kansas student earned the title of Miss Wheelchair Kansas 2025 this month during the organization’s 20th ...

Methods: 598 patients with a neuromuscular disease were studied (139 with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, 322 with adult onset myotonic dystrophy, and 137 with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy ...

Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy and a condition that severely affects multiple organs including skeletal muscle, heart, brain and the ...

The median age was 4.5 years (range 8 months–13 years). Background medical conditions (number): short bowel syndrome (one), congenital heart disease (two), sickle cell disease (one), epilepsy (three), ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2), caused by CCTG repeat expansion, is a common adult-onset disorder characterized by myotonia and progressive muscle degeneration. Current therapeutic efforts have ...