1. Scientists Reverse Muscular Dystrophy in Mice - US News and World Report
Strategy targets genetic flaw thought to be key to major form of the disease

2. Clues to Muscular Dystrophy Seen in Womb - US News and World Report
Finding could lead to earlier, more effective treatment: researchers

3. Muscular dystrophy : Prevention  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Genetic counseling is advised when there is a family history of muscular dystrophy. Women may have no symptoms but still carry the gene for the disorder. Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be detected with about 95% accuracy by genetic studies perfor...• Reviewer: Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Daniel B. Hoch, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

4. Muscular dystrophy : Prevention  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
There is no way to prevent any of the muscular dystrophies in a person who has the genes responsible for these disorders. Accurate genetic tests, including prenatal tests, are available for some of the muscular dystrophies. Results of these tests ...• Author: Nada Quercia Msc, CCGC