AS A PARENT, caregiver, or coach, seeing a kid get pumped about fitness and strength can feel kind of amazing. Especially when you consider that only between 21 to 28 percent of kids ages six to 17 ...

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 ...

"Our preliminary findings show that German children with SMA, despite significant physical disability, have surprisingly good subjective HRQoL." – Erik Landfeldt, MSc, PhD Previous studies have found ...

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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- A groundbreaking gene therapy was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children, Duchenne ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Louisville Fire Department is raising money for kids living with muscular dystrophy. The annual "Fill the Boot" campaign was started more than 70 years ago through a ...

Waking up, hopping out of the bed, and stumbling to the kitchen for a cup of coffee: It’s an everyday routine most people don’t think twice about. But for children with spinal muscular atrophy, simply ...