Lacking Cure, a New Tack on a Muscle Disease
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For all of the money raised to find a cure for muscular dystrophy, the disease still confines thousands of boys in this country to wheelchairs in their early teens.
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The finding indicates that many of the degenerative diseases of aging are caused by an active shutting down of the stem cells that renew the bodyÂs various tissues.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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NEW YORK  - Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) is known to delay children's development of movement and coordination, but now new research indicates that it may also slow language development.
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A shortage of laboratory apes and monkeys could be holding back research into new drug treatments and genetics, it is claimed.
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Stem cell research could provide a new treatment for incontinence, a new study has suggested. Research featured in the New Scientist suggests that it may be possible to use a patient&#39;s own stem cells to rebuild weak bladder muscles.
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A gene encoding a protein that appears to be a biological switch has been linked to a form of Parkinson&#39;s disease and could provide insight into halting molecular events that spur the illness.
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After years of futile attempts at replacing the defective gene that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers are now more intent on overriding the gene.
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Inmaculada Echevarria has spent much of her life watching muscular dystrophy ruin her body. She's been in a hospital bed for 20 years, her movements are now reduced to wiggling her fingers and toes and she wants to die.
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Scientists identify a gene which controls the body's ability to repair the nerve damage inflicted by diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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A gene therapy trial starts which scientists hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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NEW YORK  - Scientists may be closing in on  a remedy for a common degenerative condition of the retina  called retinitis pigmentosa.
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(WebMD) Despite concerns about popular cholesterol-lowering &quot;statin&quot; drugs, a new study shows that most of these drugs have a low risk of a serious muscle disorder.
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Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that may eventually be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy.
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NEW YORK  - Studies in mice show that a   group of drugs currently being evaluated as anti-cancer agents   promotes recovery from muscular dystrophy, a disease marked by   progressive weakness and degeneration of the muscles that   control movement for which there is no cure.