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The Echo last month reported how 14-year-old muscular dystrophy sufferer Jack Thomas, from Cardiff, was being denied vital sleep study services.

I'D like to say a huge personal thank you to the many people in Durham who helped to make the recent Muscular Dystrophy Campaign collections at Tesco stores a huge success.

The potential use of this strategy for muscle strengthening has important implications for patients with muscle diseases including Duchenne muscular dystrophy - the most common form of muscular dystrophy - as well as for the planned first clinical trial for inclusion body myositis.

Gordon McClurg, 29, has been handed the Inspiring Person of the Year Award for his work with the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.

Muscular dystrophy is defined as a group of genetic muscle diseases that are hereditary and that weaken the muscles that help to move the body Muscular dystrophy occurs with the death of muscle cells and tissues in the human body, which in turn causes skeletal muscle weakness and defects in muscle proteins Muscular dystrophy is defined as a group of genetic muscle diseases that are hereditary and that weaken the muscles that help to move the body.

Sir Alex Ferguson, Gordon Brown and Amy Macdonald are among the contributors to a cookbook for muscular dystrophy charity Action Duchenne.

The commuter study is the first campaign being organised by the Trailblazers - The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's nationwide network of 16-to 30-year-olds fighting for the rights of young disabled people.

The 82-year-old funnyman, whose annual telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) have raised an estimated two billion dollars since 1966, is to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Oscars officials announced.