DMD was first described by French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne in the 1860s. However, until the 1980s, ...

While there is no cure for BMD, there are treatment options including occupational and physical therapy, foot and ankle braces, and wheelchairs. Children with Becker muscular dystrophy may start ...

Take a moment to observe your legs. Do they touch at the thighs, knees, calves, and ankles, forming a straight leg shape personality? Or do your knees curve outward, creating a bow-legged shape ...

Muscular dystrophy (MD) actually encompasses a group of disorders that cause progressive weakness in the body's muscles, including the leg muscles ... Treatments can include supportive braces, ...

Runners often assume that “running builds strong legs,” but a better way to think about this is: “Running requires strong legs.” But, a well-designed strength-training program that ...

Kirby Lee via AP LaVar Ball has confirmed that his leg was amputated due to diabetes. A month after TMZ reported that the father of basketball stars Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball had his leg ...

LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of NBA stars Lonzo and LaMelo Ball and rapper LiAngelo, recently opened up about the health issues that led to a portion of his leg being amputated to SLAM magazine.

A young man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who received the one-time gene therapy Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl) has died due to acute liver failure. In a statement, the ...

LaVar Ball wrote a first-person account for Slam magazine of his experience with diabetes complications that resulted in him having part of his right leg amputated. (Natasha Campos / Getty Images ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting more than 25%.

its FDA-approved treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In a statement, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech said that a young man with DMD died after receiving Elevidys, a gene therapy ...