We hear often from patients and families who are having difficulty getting an insurer to pay for genetic testing of FSHD. It is our impression that the payors are denying… Read More »
Tips for getting your insurer to approve genetic testing
Duchenne/Becker and FSH Muscular Dystrophies Receive ICD-10 Codes
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, FSH Society Lead Effort to Obtain Critical Diagnostic Classification Standard HACKENSACK, N.J., Dec. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), along with collaborators the… Read More »
FSHD Family Day Conference in Los Angeles
The FSH Society’s Los Angeles FSHD Family Conference will be held on October 21, 2018, at Santa Monica College’s Bundy Campus. Join patients, families, and top researchers and clinicians for… Read More »
Bay Area FSHD Family Day Conference Videos and Slides
We are pleased to share slides and videos from our conference held in San Francisco on July 15, 2017. Thank you to our wonderful speakers and to our sponsor Acceleron… Read More »
Bone Health and FSHD
by JUNE KINOSHITA, FSH Society Muscle plays an important role in bone health, and diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy have been linked to low bone mineral density (BMD), abnormal bone… Read More »