Why disabled young people with life-shortening conditions need better support for intimacy
Until relatively recently, children and young people with life-shortening conditions were not expected to survive into adulthood.
Jan 7, 2026
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Musculoskeletal Diseases: News and Research on Muscular Dystrophies
MeSH tree: C05.651.534.500
Macrophages can act like neurons for faster muscle injury repair, study finds
At the cellular level, the mechanics of how muscle tissue repair occurs gets complicated. There are significant differences between, say, tearing a muscle in a sports injury versus muscle tissue wasting away from diseases ...
Nov 21, 2025
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US narrows use of muscle-wasting therapy after teen deaths
The United States on Friday said it would add its most serious warning label to a gene therapy treatment for a debilitating muscle-wasting disease, and also limit its approved use.
Nov 15, 2025
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Smartphones provide easy upgrade for monitoring patients with neuromuscular diseases
Because researchers have made such striking progress in developing drugs to treat neuromuscular diseases, Scott Delp, Ph.D., was surprised to learn that scientists conducting clinical trials were still relying on a decidedly ...
Nov 4, 2025
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Blocking a key protein can double yield and increase potency of muscle-regenerating cells
If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When malfunctions occur in the biological ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Precise gene editing technique changes one DNA base to correct heart disease
Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases are caused by single-point ...
Neuromuscular disease care is entering a new era of hope and innovation
Every movement we make, whether walking, speaking or even breathing, depends on the health of our muscles and nerves.
Sep 19, 2025
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Under Trump, FDA seeks to abandon expert reviews of new drugs
FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency's decisions from public scrutiny.
Sep 15, 2025
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Media visibility and costs of new medicines under examination—what does the media highlight?
A study conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and Fimea found that the Finnish news media has given GLP-1 agonists used to treat obesity, such as semaglutide, a great deal of attention while many other new medicines ...
Sep 10, 2025
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A hormone combination improves strength and function in FSHD patients
New research has demonstrated that a combined regimen of growth hormone and testosterone is safe, well-tolerated, and is associated with meaningful improvements in muscle mass, strength, and mobility for men living with facioscapulohumeral ...
Sep 8, 2025
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