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Two more participants have been dosed in the IGNITE DMD clinical trial, bringing to eight the total number of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients thus far given Solid Biosciences‘ investigational gene therapy SGT-001. The U.S. trial is testing SGT-001’s safety and efficacy in boys with DMD ages…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to losmapimod, a potential treatment for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) being developed by Fulcrum Therapeutics. The designation is intended to help bring effective treatments for serious conditions to market more quickly. It grants Fulcrum, as…

Jesse’s Journey, a Canadian nonprofit founded by parents of a child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), has given a total CA$1.7 million to support four projects looking to protect muscle fibers, or treat patients through gene editing and stem cells approaches. The award, worth about $1.4 million, is…

Pfizer has announced a delay in opening U.S. sites for its Phase 3 clinical trial CIFFREO, evaluating the investigational gene therapy PF-06939926 in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The delay is caused by questions…

Sarepta Therapeutics has announced positive results from a global study evaluating its investigational treatment SRP-5051 in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who are amenable to exon 51 skipping. Results from part A of the…

Ray Jordan and Cyndi Segroves, a married couple with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), haven’t let their disability get in the way of anything.  They’ve traveled from their Arizona home to destinations around the world — from Hawaii and New…

The muscles of people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) show profound impairment, with changes in fatty molecules and energy metabolism, as compared with those of their healthy peers, a small French study revealed. While previous studies have reported such metabolic changes in DMD patients, this was the first…

Editor’s note: The Muscular Dystrophy News Today team is providing in-depth coverage of the 2021 Virtual AAN Annual Meeting, April 17–22. Go here to read the latest stories from the conference. People with myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) tend to be older at symptom onset than those with myotonic…

Editor’s note: The Muscular Dystrophy News Today team is providing in-depth coverage of the 2021 Virtual AAN Annual Meeting, April 17–22. Go here to read the latest stories from the conference. Women with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type R9 (LGMDR9) are not at a greater risk of pregnancy complications,…

More than half of the people with rare diseases and their caregivers, asked in a survey, were undecided or less than willing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 if a vaccine was approved under emergency use authorization instead of the routine process, the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Disease reports. These findings…