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Closeup of an unclothed infant lying on its side on a white blanket while an adult hand holds a stethoscope to its chest.
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Q&A: Understanding Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

By MDA Staff | February 16, 2023
Four artworks: The first is a painting of a fire fighter in full gear and carrying an ax, walking away from a house where smoke billows out the windows with his arm around a small girl carrying a cat. The second is a drawing of two boys standing next to a river wearing shirts that say “Camp” and holding fishing poles. The third is a portrait of a black and tan dog looking upward with a focused expression. The fourth is an abstract painting with the silhouette of a face, circles, and curving shapes in bright reds, yellows, blues and greens.
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MDA’s Art Collection Celebrates the Talents of Our Community

By MDA Staff | February 16, 2023
Illustration of a group of people using different physical accommodations, including a wheelchair, prosthetic limbs, and crutches.
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MDA Makes Strides in DEI

By MDA Staff | February 16, 2023
Illustration of a medical office, with a man in a white lab coat standing holding a clipboard, a man sitting in a wheelchair, and a woman in scrubs pushing the wheelchair.
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MDA Care Centers: A National Network of Expert Care

By MDA Staff | February 16, 2023
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Quest Podcast: New Year, New Mindset with Jose Flores

By MDA Staff | February 14, 2023
3 separate human skeletal clipart images are set in blue: a hand, with a red target indicating wrist contractures; a bent elbow, with a red target indicating elbow contractures; and a foot, with a red target indicating ankle contractures.
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Q&A: Understanding Bethlem Myopathy

By MDA Staff | November 18, 2022
Sean Wallace, a young white man with a black baseball cap, dark brown beard, and black shirt and pants, sits in a black power wheelchair in the center of a gently arching bridge with green railings. Neither end of the bridge is visible in the photo, so the man and bridge appear to be suspended in a sky with purple-tinged clouds above white-capped sea waves.
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Top 4 Reader Photos of 2022

By MDA Staff | November 18, 2022
A panel of adult males and females at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative conference sitting down engaged in a discussion on stage. Two individuals are seated in wheelchairs, several are wearing face masks and holding microphones.
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MDA On the Road Launches at High-Impact Conferences to Advocate for Neuromuscular Community

By MDA Staff | November 18, 2022
A cream colored bar of soap with soap suds on a white background
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Easy Clean: Bathing Products for People with Disabilities

By MDA Staff | October 1, 2022
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MDA Celebrates the Approval of Relyvrio from Amylyx for the Treatment of ALS

By MDA Staff | September 30, 2022