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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — Good things come to those who sweat. That's what they believe at Burn Boot Camp in Kirkwood. "We focus on strength training and bringing women together and their families to become ...

Jacob (6) loves swimming and joins a swim team that he is really enjoying. Then he has a series of illnesses that keep him out of this activity for over a month, after which he starts refusing to go ...

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 ...