Article: Research company is ordered to give teen experimental drug

Article: CIHR, World Premier: Quebec Research Team Announces Successful Trial of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Treatment.
Canadian Corporate News;  February 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the first clinical trial on three...Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy raise the...Services, Muscular Dystrophy Canada. The...phase of this clinical trial consisted...Tremblay's clinical trial is funded jointly by CIHR, Muscular Dystrophy Canada ...

Article: Preliminary Results of Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trial Encouraging
U.S. Newswire;  October 21, 2006 ;     580 words ......Mackle of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...support from the Muscular Dystrophy Association...for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a clinical trial of boys with...translated into clinical activity in...data were from clinical trial sites at ...

Article: PTC Therapeutics Completes Enrollment of Pivotal Trial in Muscular Dystrophy.(Clinical report)
Biotech Week;  February 18, 2009 ;     631 words ......its pivotal clinical trial of PTC124...and Becker muscular dystrophy (nmDMD/BMD...Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy is a rare...taken by clinical trial sites, advocacy...therapies for the muscular dystrophy community. Keywords: Muscular ...

Article: POSSIBLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GENE FOUND.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 4, 1989 ;     378 words ......step toward finding a treatment for muscular dystrophy, scientists reported they had discovered...protein that is apparently defective in muscular dystrophy victims. The gene shows a strong...of the disease known as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the scientists said. This is an...

Article: PTC Therapeutics Completes Enrollment of Pivotal Trial in Muscular Dystrophy.
PR Newswire;  February 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ......enrollment of its pivotal clinical trial of PTC124 in patients...Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (nmDMD/BMD). Accrual...approach taken by clinical trial sites, advocacy groups...a second pivotal clinical trial of ataluren in patients...

Article: Reauthorization of Muscular Dystrophy Bill Signed into Law.
Biotech Week;  October 22, 2008 ;     593 words ......research and improve patient care for muscular dystrophy. The bill builds on the success of...Senate (see also Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy). This bill means so much to the...founder and CEO of the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD). Furlong and her group initiated...

Article: Scientists at Newcastle University discuss research in muscular dystrophy.
Biotech Week;  March 11, 2009 ;     455 words ......and Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD). Although the Col6a1...providing justification for a clinical trial using cyclosporine A, an...is found in limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) type 2B myoblasts...Kingdom, Muscular Dystrophy, Clinical ...

Article: Reauthorization of Muscular Dystrophy Bill Signed into Law
U.S. Newswire;  October 9, 2008 ;     694 words ......Nolan of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, +1-201- 944-9985 Non-profit...advocacy group, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), works with bipartisan...improve patient care for muscular dystrophy. The bill builds on the...

Article: FDA Awards PTC Therapeutics Orphan Products Development Grant for the Development of PTC124 in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
PR Newswire;  October 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Project UK Muscular Dystrophy Conference...based Phase 2 clinical trial of PTC124...nonsense-mutation-mediated Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). (Logo...Phase 2 DMD clinical trial of PTC124...dose-ranging clinical trial is evaluating...Project UK ...

Article: New treatment enters phase I clinical trial.
Drug Week;  November 22, 2002 ;     259 words ......Canada have begun a phase I clinical trial to test a myoblast transplant-bas...treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The research team is directed...available for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Myoblasts are obtained...patient affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ...

Article: muscular dystrophy
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      172 words ......Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 muscular dystrophy, a group of inherited diseases. They...of nerve tissue. In all forms of muscular dystrophy there is a slow loss of strength...reduce deformity. See also Becker's muscular dystrophy, distal muscular dystrophy, ...

Article: SCIENTISTS PURSUE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY KEY GENETIC DISCOVERY EXPECTED.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 31, 1986 ;     700+ words ......maternally inherited disease - Duchene muscular dystrophy, a top researcher says. It's 100...associate director of research at the Muscular Dystrophy Association in New York City. I anticipate...possibilities, they mean even more to muscular dystrophy patients like Marc Robideau, a ...

Article: Fed: Cure for muscular dystrophy near
AAP General News (Australia);  February 22, 2001 ;     391 words ......Australia) 02-22-2001 Fed: Cure for muscular dystrophy near By Rada Rouse, National Medical...a cure for the genetic condition muscular dystrophy, but parents and carers are warned...Struk, executive director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association which funded much of...

Article: Researchers cure mice of form of muscular dystrophy. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 18, 1993 ;     540 words ......Jerry Lewis _ head cheerleader for muscular dystrophy research _ and the researcher is...cured a mouse version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common childhood form of...Lewis Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Chamberlain's team did...