Sentences with phrase «debilitating muscular disease»

There was the young girl suffering from a debilitating muscular disease who wished for a computer to keep in contact with friends and family so she didn't feel so alone; a brother and sister with a rare skin ailment who wished to play baseball with the Yankees and go on a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive; a young boy battling cancer who dreamed of a trip to Hawaii.

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MDA Summer Camp provides thousands of kids with muscular dystrophy and related muscle - debilitating diseases «the best week of the year.»
Spinal muscular atrophy is a debilitating disease that causes weakness and wasting of the muscles.
In addition to supercharging stamina, the drug, called AICAR, may also be useful in treating debilitating muscular disorders such as muscular dystrophy as well as metabolic diseases such as diabetes, because it also appears to help the body use and remove sugar from the blood more effectively.
Curis Inc. in Cambridge has received a $ 5.4 million, three - year grant from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation to identify therapeutic compounds to treat spinal muscular atrophy, a debilitating neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of infant and toddleMuscular Atrophy Foundation to identify therapeutic compounds to treat spinal muscular atrophy, a debilitating neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of infant and toddlemuscular atrophy, a debilitating neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of infant and toddler death.
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease (PD), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), and spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs), are incurable and debilitating disorders.
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