Managing osteoporosis and bone health in Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in a high-risk environment for fractures due to ...

With a strong launch underway for a bladder cancer gene therapy, Ferring Pharmaceuticals is finding the kind of commercial ...

Vinay Prasad is once again head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Laura Loomer led a campaign ...

In the wake of multiple patient deaths from liver injuries related to Sarepta Therapeutics’ AAV gene therapy platform, some ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...

Last month Claire Ellis, aged 34, a teacher from Doncaster, set off from her home to cycle 100km in support of her son Declan ...

COALITION Duchenne's 13th annual Expedition Mt Kinabalu will start tomorrow from Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa, ...

12. Crisafulli S, Sultana J, Fontana A, Salvo F, Messina S, Trifirò G. Global epidemiology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

Charlie has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative genetic disease that, until recently, has guaranteed death by early adulthood from cardiac or respiratory failure.

After decades of research, gene therapy has been approved for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative muscle disease diagnosed each year in about 1 in 3,500 newborns, almost all boys.

Deflazacort, a newly FDA-approved drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has an $89,000-a-year price tag. It has been put on hold because of an uproar over drug prices.

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy may no longer be a death sentence. Oct. 17, 2012— -- Although he made it to 29 years old with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Jason Williams was not expected to ...