Common drug reverses common effect of becker muscular dystrophy

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 22:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have found in an initial clinical trial that a drug typically prescribed for erectile dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension restores blood flow to oxygen-starved muscles in patients with a type of muscular dystrophy that affects males, typically starting in childhood or adolescence.

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