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Content
A Quicker Trip from ‘Microscope to Marketplace’?
(3 comments)
A Range of Outcomes
A Time to Celebrate
Adding to the Mix
Advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy
ALS 'Lake Link' Tenuous
ALS Drug Trial Restarted
(1 comment)
ALS Fatigue Fighter
ALS Registry FAQs
ALS Research: Poison Dirt?
ALS Research: Restoring Disrupted Connections
ALS Research: Survival Gene
ALS SOD1 Trial: A ‘Watershed Moment’
(10 comments)
ALS TDI Update
ALS TDI Webcast
ALS TDI: Full Speed Ahead
(4 comments)
Being a Co-Adventurer
Books March-April 2008
Brothers’ FSHD Spurs His Research
Building a Better Gene
Building New Muscle Requires Controlled Damage
By Thoughts Alone
Cardiomyopathy in Becker MD
(1 comment)
Causative Gene Mutations ID'd for Two Muscle Diseases
(2 comments)
Clinical Trials and Studies Fall 2009
Clinical Trials and Studies January-February 2007
Clinical Trials and Studies July-August 2007
Clinical Trials and Studies March-April 2007
Clinical Trials and Studies March-April 2008
Clinical Trials and Studies May-June 2007
Clinical Trials and Studies November-December 2008
Clinical Trials and Studies September-October 2007
Clinical Trials and Studies September-October 2008
Clinical Trials and Studies Spring 2009
Clinical Trials and Studies Summer 2009
Clinical Trials and Studies Winter 2009
Clinical Trials January-February 2008
Clinical Trials July-August 2008
Clinical Trials May-June 2008
Clinical Trials November-December 2007
Clinical Trials September-October 2006
Clinical Trials Winter 2010
CMD Research: Promising Leads
CMT & Vitamin C
(1 comment)
CMT Research Network
CMT Research: Gene Benefits Mice
Congenital MD Meeting
Coping with Corticosteroids
DMD: Restarting Muscle Development?
Debatable Destinies
Defensive Action
Did Someone Say 'Recess'?
DMD Research: Another Dystrophin Stand-In?
DMD Research: Doubts About EKGs
DMD Research: Exon Skipping
DMD Research: Exon Skipping Goes Systemic
DMD, BMD: Trial of Ataluren in Nonwalkers
(5 comments)
DMD, MG Research: Spotlight on Prednisone
DMD/BMD Reseach: Minidystrophin Gene
DMD/BMD Research: Ataluren Results Disappointing
(7 comments)
DMD: Gene-Changing 'Cocktail'
Dogs with ALS
Drug Development Progress: How Are They Doing?
EDMD Research: Lamin Defects
Epigenetics: Above and Beyond Genes
European Team Combines Stem Cells, Gene Correction to Treat DMD-Affected Mice
Exercise Q and A
Exon Skipping Drug Delivers Again
Exon Skipping Skips Ahead
Experts Discuss ALS
Fighting the Fire
Follistatin Genes Strengthen Muscles in Monkeys
(1 comment)
Gene Links Rare CMT, SMA Forms
Gene Therapy Book by MDA Grantee
(4 comments)
Gene Therapy May Require Dodging Immune System
Gene Therapy Now in Its Teen Years
Gene Therapy Rescues Mice with SMA
(5 comments)
George Karpati: "He Was a Giant"
Heroes, Hope & Hollywood
(2 comments)
History of Corticosteroids in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Holes in the Walls
I Won’t Wait for a Cure
IBM Research: Doubts about Tau
Impossible Things
In Focus: Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD)
In Focus: Periodic Paralysis
In Focus: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
(1 comment)
International ALS Conference
Italian Trial of Lithium in ALS Stopped Early
Keeping in Touch July-August 2008
Keeping in Touch November-December 2008
LGMD Research: Modifier Gene
MDA Awards $21 Million for Research
MD Research: 3-Protein Repair Cluster
MD Research: Muscle-Repair Booster
MD-CARE Passes
MDA Clinic Directors and Researchers Gather for Three Days of Talks
MDA Mailbag November-December 2008
MDA Matters March-April 2008
MDA Matters May-June 2008
MDA Matters November-December 2007
MicroRNA molecules may provide new therapeutic targets in several diseases
Mito Disease Research: New Prevention Strategy
Mitochondrial Disease Meeting Highlights new Directions
MLB Honors ALS Activist
MMD Research: "Bright" Prospect
MMD Research: Disrupted Disease Process
(1 comment)
MMD Research: Drug Development?
MMD1 Research: Iplex Shows Limited Benefit
MMD1: Lost Proteins’ Roles Revealed?
(3 comments)
MMD: Insmed Announces Results
Moving Away from the Blasts of the Past
Myasthenia Gravis Studies
New ALS Care Guidelines Released
New ALS Mouse
New Directions
New DMD Care Recommendations
(4 comments)
New DMD Care Recommendations Released
New Grant For LGMD2D Gene Therapy
New MDA Grant Will Help Develop FA Drug
New Muscle Stem Cell Found in Mice
(5 comments)
New Studies Improve Understanding of Myotonic Dystrophy
NIH ALS Lithium Trial Stops
NIH Wants to Know
NM Research: Successful Substitute?
Not Always Smooth Sailing
Nutritional Considerations While on Corticosteroids
OPMD: Like a Frog in Boiling Water
OPMD: Nips, Tucks and Lifts for Droopy Eyes
OPMD: Not Glad, But Very Well Prepared
(1 comment)
OPMD: Stopping a Long Protein from Shortening a Life
OPMD: Surgery to Help Move Food Past Weak Throat Muscles
OPMD: Toxic Clumps Not the Only Cause?
Patching the Membrane
People With Pompe Disease Speak Out on Nutrition, Exercise
Plugging a Leak
Plugs and Patches Improve Muscle Health
Poised on the Cutting Edge
Pompe Disease: A Killer Yields to Modern Medicine
Possible New Therapy for OPMD?
(1 comment)
Potassium Channel Mutations Underlie TPP
(3 comments)
PP: A Day in the Life of a Periodic Paralysis Patient
(1 comment)
PP: It’s all in the Muscles, Not the Head
Progress in SMA Research
Rescued Lives: Myozyme Answers SOS from Pompe Community
Rescuing SBMA-Affected Muscles
Research Administration November-December 2008
Research Administration Summer 2009
Research Administration Winter 2009
Research Points to New Directions In Inclusion-Body Myositis Treatment
Research Updates December 2002
Research Updates Fall 2009
Research Updates January-February 2007
Research Updates January-February 2008
Research Updates July-August 2007
Research Updates July-August 2008
Research Updates March-April 2007
Research Updates May-June 2007
Research Updates May-June 2008
Research Updates November-December 2004
Research Updates November-December 2007
Research Updates November-December 2008
Research Updates September-October 2006
Research Updates September-October 2007
Research Updates September-October 2008
Research Updates Spring 2009
Research Updates Summer 2009
(1 comment)
Research Updates Winter 2009
(1 comment)
Research Updates Winter 2010
Ryan Levinson: Let the Games Begin
Scientists Bullish on Stem Cells for Muscle Repair
Scientists Continue to Explore Stem Cells
Scientists Share Gene Therapy Advances
Searching for Signs
Silencing Toxic Genes
SMA Fast Facts (video)
SMA Patient Registry Aids Research
SMA Research
SMA Research: A Helpful Mutation
SMA Research: Back to the Beginning
SMA Research: Bolstering Backup SMN
SMA Research: Gene Mutation Improves Disease Course
SMA Research: Saving Shortened SMN Protein
(1 comment)
SMA Research: Strengthening the Junctions
(13 comments)
SMA Researchers Break New Ground
SMA Therapeutics: Changing the Code
(8 comments)
SMA: A Family Guide to the Consensus Statement for Standard of Care
SMA: Committee Presents Clinical Care Guidelines
SMA: Masking Unwanted Instructions
SMBA Research: Can This Cell Be Saved?
Smoking Raises Risk of ALS
Speeding the Course of Clinical Trials
Stem Cell Research: Major Step
Stem Cells to Nerve Cells
The Brain in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The Brain in MMD
The Genie’s Out of the Bottle
The Periodic Paralyses
The Race Isn't Over
Three New Studies Shed Light on Myostatin Blocking to Treat MD
Through the Pipeline, as Fast as Possible
Two ALS Drugs Show Early Promise
Two Research Teams Treat CMD Mice
Untangling ALS
Utrophin Gets In
What Does Blocking Myostatin Do?
What Not to Eat
When Neuromuscular Disease Affects the Brain
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