In 2014, a Dutch team reported that aerobic exercise training (AET) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) decreased fatigue and improved the quality of life significantly in FSHD patients. Now, the… Read More »
Imaging study shows positive effects of exercise and CBT on muscle degeneration
Consensus Reached to Move Forward with Formation of International Global FSHD Patient Registry
Newly Formed Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Consortium Aims to Consolidate More than 13 Patient Registries in Effort to Accelerate Research on Rare Disease BOSTON – (February 22, 2017) – Today the… Read More »
Promising FSHD mouse model from Harper lab
Video caption: These mice are siblings and genetically identical. In the one on the right, we turned DUX4 “on”, while in the one on the left, the DUX4 gene remained… Read More »
A tunable FSHD-like DUX4 mouse model
by Peter Jones, PhD, and Takako Jones, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno The aberrant expression of the DUX4 primate retrotransposon is the key mediator of all forms of FSHD. Thus,… Read More »
On patient registries: findings from our suvey
Last November, the FSH Society invited its members to participate in a survey designed to gauge what members understand about patient registries and for researchers to gain insight into what kind of… Read More »