Ways to help your kids and yourself cope living with JM

Cure JM Mental Health Coordinator, Suzanne Edison discusses ways to help your kids and yourself cope living with JM. Learn about emotional and behavioral challenges that often come with chronic diseases like juvenile myositis and ways to help patients and caregivers cope.

Stretch Out- an educational resource and exercise video of children and their parents

An Educational Resource and Exercise Video for Children and Their Parents

This video features stretching exercises that are an important part of rehabilitation for JM patients. The video was created for Muscular Dystrophy patients, but is still applicable for JM patients.

Cure JM Partner Researcher Uncovers New Biomarkers. Fionnuala McMorrow. University of Bath, UK

Cure JM-Funded Researcher Uncovers New Biomarkers

With your financial support, Cure JM is proud to have funded Fionnuala McMorrow, a Postgraduate Research Student in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath, to embark on a critical research project. Fionnuala’s team analyzed blood samples from the UK to investigate two specific biomarkers (anti-CCAR1 and anti-Sp4) recently identified in U.S. patients with JDM and related conditions

Optimizing Myositis Care: The Role of Biologics

Biologics are a therapies that derived from living cells or through biological processes. They are a promising new class of drugs used to treat myositis.

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Ways to help your kids and yourself cope living with JM

An Educational Resource and Exercise Video for Children and Their Parents

Cure JM-Funded Researcher Uncovers New Biomarkers

Optimizing Myositis Care: The Role of Biologics

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