The first child-specific body scan charts could enable physicians to assess obesity risk

A Concordia-led research team has created one of the first reference charts showing how children's adipose (fat) and muscle ...
Click2Houston

First-ever treatment for muscular dystrophy could help thousands of little kids

HOUSTON – There’s a new type of therapy that can help kids with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects one in 3,600 male births, and it can lead to immobility, and ...
KMBC Kansas City

First gene therapy for deadly form of muscular dystrophy gets FDA approval for young kids

The first gene therapy for a deadly form of muscular dystrophy received preliminary U.S. approval on Thursday despite concerns from some government scientists about the treatment's ability to help ...
Fox 23

Jenks gym raising money to send kids with muscular dystrophy to special summer camp

JENKS, Okla. — A local gym is raising money to send kids with muscular dystrophy to a summer camp specialized for them. Burn Boot Camps everywhere are fundraising for the Muscular Dystrophy ...
CBS News 8

The happiest place on earth for kids with Muscular Dystrophy

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — Nothing lifts your spirits, quite like lifting someone else's. That's what they do every day at MDA Camp. "It's somewhere where you're not defined by your disease," said ...
4029tv

First gene therapy for deadly form of muscular dystrophy gets FDA approval for young kids

Muscular dystrophy is *** debilitating condition affecting one's ability to move around the world. There is currently no cure for the disease which is why some are now turning to technology to live ** ...