Gottfried’s publicist Glenn Schwartz later said in a statement to People that the comedian died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a heart complication due to a ...

PHOENIX - We are learning more about the death of comedian Gilbert Gottfried, which was announced on April 12. According to a statement from Gottfried's longtime friend and publicist, Glenn Schwartz, ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 incurs high healthcare costs, driven by age and comorbidities like cardiac and respiratory issues. Early detection and integrated management of multisystemic complications ...

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, shown in a 2016 photo, died on Tuesday, April 12, from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II. Scott Roth Scott Roth/Invision/AP Comedian ...

This study was carried out on 9 patients with myotonic dystrophy and 8 with slowly progressive nonmyotonic muscular dystrophy admitted to the Neurology Service at Duke University Hospital and the ...

Myotonic dystrophy is thought to be caused by the binding of a protein called Mbnl1 to abnormal RNA repeats. In these two images of the same muscle precursor cell, the top image shows the location of ...

A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1—the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy—provides insight into why patients develop fatty liver disease and ...

In a preprint uploaded to the Research Square* server, researchers used a combination of in vivo mice models and next-generation sequencing techniques to elucidate the pathomechanistic connection ...

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried died on Tuesday after a long illness, his family announced. His publicist revealed in a statement to multiple publications, including People, that Gottfried had “recurrent ...

This study was carried out on 9 patients with myotonic dystrophy and 8 with slowly progressive nonmyotonic muscular dystrophy admitted to the Neurology Service at Duke University Hospital and the ...