2013 has been a year of incredibly high highs and incredibly low lows. Sometimes those lows have overshadowed all the highs—and for good reason. It’s impossible to put into words how devastating the setbacks are.

But our community is and has always been stronger than the setbacks. We may be fighting a disease that takes away muscle, but you are the strongest people I’ve ever known. It’s during our biggest challenges that strength matters most, and I know we’ll get through this…

Yesterday was a disappointing day for all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others touched by Duchenne. Like most of our community, I awoke to the news that multiple factors have led Sarepta to announce that it would delay the filing of its much-anticipated…

PPMD is proud to host a Policy Forum on clinical trials of experiment agents on December 12, 2013 from 8.30AM until 4.30PM in Silver Springs, MD. We are especially pleased that key Duchenne-community stakeholders, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),…

Guest post by Ivy Scherbarth. Ivy is a Colorado/Wyoming FACES Coordinator for PPMD and mom to Hazel, age 8, and Rain, age 6. Rain has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Follow Ivy at her blog, Living …