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 : Causes, incidence, and risk factors  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Many diseases called muscular dystrophies (MD) are inherited disorders, such as: Becker's muscular dystrophy; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy; M...• 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 : Causes  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Several of the muscular dystrophies, including DMD, BMD, CMD, and most forms of LGMD, are due to defects in the genes for a complex of muscle proteins. This complex spans the muscle cell membrane to unite a fibrous network on the interior of the c...• Author: L. Fleming Fallon Jr., MD, DrPH