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CMD Quality of Life and Caregiver Assessment Survey

CMD Affected Individual and Caregiver Quality of Life Survey to be published August issue of Neuromuscular Disorders, shedding light on key areas to positively and negatively impact lives of people with CMD and their caregivers
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Cure CMD announces CMD BioBank

To find treatments for the CMDs and identify new CMD genes requires support from the CMD community. If you have CMD or are a sibling or parent of someone with CMD, we would like you to consider supporting CMD Discovery through donating a blood or skin biopsy sample to the CMD BioBank located at the [...]

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Bio-NMD update

BIO-NMD is a three year FP7 research project concentrating on the search for non-invasive biomarkers in people with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and Collagen VI myopathies (including Ullrich congential muscular dystrophy and Bethlem myopathy).

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Traversing the Valley of Death: A Guide to Assessing Prospects for Translational Success

A well written article describing the pitfalls of developing new drugs for rare diseases (click here).

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ENMC Collagen VI Workshop report, May 2009

To read the report from the ENMC Collagen VI Workshop, click here.

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PTC 124 (Ataluren) fails to meet primary endpoints in Phase 2B study

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2009 NIH Funding Estimates for Muscular Dystrophy

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CMD Drug Discovery Meeting

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Seeking Qualified Applicant for Muscle Disease Tenure Track Position

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Muscle Disease Postdoctoral Position Available in Paris

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