Muscular Dystrophy Canada, Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry, NMD4C partner to ensure Canadians can access Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) cure(s)
Muscular Dystrophy Canada and the Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry are working together with NMD4C to introduce a patient registry and collect information to build a Canada-wide core dataset for Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Learn more about this project at: https://muscle.ca/2023/02/27/mdc-cndr-nmd4c-partner-to-ensure-canadians-can-access-fshd-cures/.
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