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This week: promising treatments for muscular dystrophy, gluten sensitivity and more

Neurologist Deborah Bradshaw discusses two types of disease-modifying treatments that are in clinical trial and could have a profound effect on people who have muscular dystrophy.

“Because we know finally what’s wrong in the gene, how that translates to an abnormal protein and how the protein may be processed abnormally in the cell, we’re actually designing drugs that interrupt that pathway and may, literally, change the course of a genetic disease,” said Bradshaw. “It is amazing.”

Also this week, laboratory technologists, Janine Werchinski-Yates and David Latour tell what it's like working in a medical laboratory. And, Dr. David T. Nash discusses gluten sensitivity.