Tag: muscular dystrophy

New research suggests that myotonia—the delayed relaxation of muscles that causes stiffness—may be more than a symptom of myotonic dystrophy type 1. In animal models, eliminating myotonia improved ...

The University of Rochester Center for Health + Technology (CHeT) stands as one of academic medicine’s most successful experiments in translating science into patient benefit. Over nearly four ...

A clinical trial found that six months of daily growth hormone plus biweekly testosterone was safe, well-tolerated, and produced meaningful gains in men with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

A new study will investigate early stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy in infants and toddlers, with the help of newly implemented newborn screening for the disease. The research will enhance ...

Gene therapy can effectively treat various diseases, but for some debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophies there is a big problem: size. The genes that are dysfunctional in muscular ...

Some of comedy’s biggest names gathered in New York City on Wednesday to honor the life of Gilbert Gottfried and raise funds for muscular dystrophy research at the University of Rochester Medical ...

Rabi Tawil, MD, one of the world’s leading experts in rare neuromuscular diseases, is retiring after more than three decades with URMC.

The field of RNA biology has catapulted to the forefront of health and medicine over the past decade as the work of scientists like Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, director of the University of Rochester ...

The study demonstrates that calcium and chloride channelopathy lies at the heart of the muscle dysfunction found in the disease and that common clinically available calcium channel blockers can ...

For almost five decades, researchers with the Medical Center have been studying myotonic dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and other rare neuromuscular disorders, and played a pivotal role in ...