An alternative to using standard glucocorticoids is the synthetic dissociative steroid vamorolone (Agamree), which was ...

The last couple of weeks has been particularly distressing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients and their families. The ...

The agency’s now-reversed decision to halt distribution of a gene therapy for children suffering from muscular dystrophy ...

REGENXBIO Inc. (NASDAQ:RGNX) is one of the biotech stocks to buy according to Wall Street analysts. On July 10, REGENXBIO ...

Sarepta's therapy has been under scrutiny from regulators after two teenage boys died earlier this year from acute liver ...

As gene therapy maker Sarepta Therapeutics tangles with FDA over its Duchenne treatment, patients and their families are ...

The Food and Drug Administration has paused distribution of the gene therapy Elevidys following the death of a third patient ...

The FDA said it was clearing the way for Sarepta Therapeutics to resume shipments of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular ...

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 ...

A new investigation into Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) pathogenesis suggests that at least part of the muscle degeneration observed in DMD patients may result from the reduced production of ...

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 ...