Friedreich Ataxia: Looking Forward at the Treatment Landscape

Less than half of patients had undergone bone monitoring, suggesting a need for better clinical guidance and management of osteoporosis in adult men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

The FDA has approved the first and only subcutaneous apomorphine infusion device, apomorphine hydrochloride injection (Onapgo), for the treatment of adults with advanced Parkinson disease.

A new predictive model developed by Ochsner Health helps clinicians make real-time decisions for patients who had a stroke undergoing urgent carotid intervention, improving chances of regaining functional independence.

The gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl showed clinically meaningful benefits and disease stabilization at 2 years in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

The FDA approves a new maintenance dosing regimen for lecanemab (Leqembi; Eisai) in patients with early-stage Alzheimer disease (AD), enabling a transition from biweekly to once-every-4-week dosing while preserving clinical and biomarker benefits.

Prophylactic cardiac treatment may prolong survival in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), but only one-quarter of individuals received such treatment, a recent study found.