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Opinion: Limb girdle muscular dystrophy patients face a maddening reality

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Opinion: Limb girdle muscular dystrophy patients face a maddening reality
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When I was first diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), I was devastated to learn there wasn’t any treatment or cure. For those of us living with progressive diseases, time is not neutral. Every month a promising therapy is delayed, we will have irreversible loss of muscle function.



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