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Researchers report that a drug used to treat pneumonia might serve as an effective treatment against a type of muscular dystrophy.

The five-member team reports that pentamidine, when tested in genetically altered mice, counters genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy -- one of nine types of muscular dystrophy -- also known as DM1 and Steinart's disease.

Rise in sea levels on Australias eastern seaboard much slower than predicted Reports indicate that sea levels on Australias eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the New South Wales Government is predicting.

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

Chris Van Tulleken, Douglas Macdonald, and Peter L. Chiodini Author affiliations: The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London ; and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London To the Editor: Human African trypanosomiasis results in a large number of deaths and considerable illness in ...