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Being diagnosed with myotonic dystrophy changed my life, and I had to change with it On my 28th birthday, I recognized that something was wrong. I used to be able…

Here’s what you need to know about what service dogs do and how to get one At Payton Rule’s high school in Missouri, the school year always ended with field…

More than 150 hospitals and healthcare institutions provide specialized neuromuscular disease care   We’re welcoming 13 new hospitals and healthcare institutions to the MDA Care Center Network. These Care Centers…

Today, the smart home is a reality. Its story, meanwhile, is less about the latest products and capabilities and more about the ways users are accessing those products and channeling…

Passing on lessons I learned from buying an accessible van When my mom and I had to purchase a new accessible van about two years ago, we were not in…

A Q&A with Stanley Appel, MD   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative motor neuron disease typically diagnosed in adults in middle age or later. About 18,000 people in…

FDA grants approval to an oral suspension of edaravone (RADICAVA ORS) for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

MDA’s 2022 Clinical & Scientific Conference was the world’s largest meeting on neuromuscular disease care In mid-March, more than 1,000 people gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, for MDA’s 2022 Clinical &…

A growing number of parks and recreation areas accommodate people with disabilities who are looking for adventure with accessibility.

It’s been half a century since University of California, Los Angeles, computer science professor Jacques Vidal coined the term “brain-computer interface” (BCI) and produced the first peer-reviewed papers on the…