Progress Made Toward Early Identification Of Muscular Dystrophy
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
New muscular dystrophy (MD) research is moving doctors and scientists closer to disease diagnosis in advance of patient symptoms. Since it is now clear that early treatment significantly improves life expectancy and quality of life for muscular dystrophy children, this new discovery regarding MD's prenatal origin has the potential to result in earlier diagnosis, and thus create a better quality of life for these patients.