http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found in an initial clinical trial that a drug typically prescribed for erectile dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension restores blood flow to oxygen-starved muscles in patients with a type of muscular dystrophy that affects males, typically starting in childhood or adolescence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-common-drug-reverses-effect-becker.html Medical research Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:42:41 EST news273336154 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that an experimental compound may help stem the debilitating effects of muscular dystrophy by restoring normal blood flow to muscles affected by the genetic disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-preclinical-muscular-dystrophy.html Medical research Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:06:22 EST news271591571