Example Sentences

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Investors will be keen for updates on drug candidates such as remibrutinib for multiple sclerosis, pelacarsen for cardiovascular risk and del-desiran for muscle disease myotonic dystrophy type 1, according to UBS.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Examples include Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and certain forms of ALS.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

She had a learning disability and lived with a serious muscle condition called myotonic dystrophy.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2022

Mrs. McKissack was diagnosed several years ago with myotonic dystrophy, a muscle disorder, her son said, and was “really weakened” by the death in 2013 of her husband and frequent collaborator, Fredrick L. McKissack.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2017

Though he gets about in a motorized scooter, he has not let his myotonic dystrophy, a disease involving progressive muscle loss, curtail his travels.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017