Edwina Hart will meet families affected by muscle disease at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's conference in Swansea on 13 October.
Dr Dai Lloyd AM who chairs the cross party group said he was "shocked" that muscle disease patients and their families had to "put up with such poor healthcare in Wales".
Parkes admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility as he was diagnosed with depression after the onset of a muscle-wasting disease three years before the attack.
Wyeth, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, created a myostatin-blocking drug and put it into clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease that kills hundreds of men each year before they reach their mid-thirties.
Among them are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) - a hereditary condition in which there is excessive thickening in the heart muscle, myocarditis, which leads to inflammation of the heart muscle and coronary artery disease.
Mr Cato suffers from motor-neurone disease, a muscle-wasting condition that will leave him unable to breathe.
Acorda's drug, Fampridine-SR, works differently from dirucotide and specifically addresses one of the most devastating symptoms of the disease, loss of muscle strength.
ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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Frequent heartburn or acid reflux are symptoms of a condition called GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, which occurs when a sphincter muscle in the lower esophagus stops working properly.
"It causes severe muscle weakness, feeding and respiratory problems, and the disease is progressive, " the hospital said in a statement.
In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.
Pharming, a Dutch biotechnology firm, recently began clinical trials for alpha-glucosidase, a product designed to treat Pompe's disease, a metabolic disorder causing fatal degeneration of muscle.
Stuhr said older clients are at higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and also may have problems like arthritis, back pain or muscle tears.
The stress thallium and the cardio catheterization, in which dye is injected in the coronary arteries (arteries of the heart muscle) are both useful in telling us if there is any coronary artery disease.
The severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever, involves a high temperature, head and muscle aches, internal bleeding and, at worst, circulatory failure.
She said a pill to prevent muscle loss would unfortunately not be able to change the genetic cause of muscular dystrophy, but might slow down the disease progression.
One of the features of a brain with Alzheimer's disease is the loss of synapses, which are junctions between two neurons or between a neuron and a muscle.
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