Category Archives: Research News

Pediatrics. 2010 Sep;126(3):538-45. Epub 2010 Aug 2. Cardiac findings in congenital muscular dystrophies. Finsterer J, Ramaciotti C, Wang CH, Wahbi K, Rosenthal D, Duboc D, Melacini P. Abstract Cardiac involvement (CI) in congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) has been only rarely investigated so far. By means of a systematic literature search we reviewed the literature about [...]

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 More…

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 [...]

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).

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

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

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