Understanding Recruitment Yield From Social Media Advertisements and Associated Costs of a Telehealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Descriptive Study.

Background: Recruiting study participants for clinical research is a challenging yet essential task. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, offer the opportunity to recruit participants through paid advertisements. These ad campaigns may be a cost-effective approach to reaching and recruiting participants who meet specific study criteria.

The D2.mdx mouse as a preclinical model of the skeletal muscle pathology associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked, lethal muscle degenerative disease caused by loss of dystrophin protein. DMD has no cure and few treatment options. Preclinical efforts to identify potential DMD therapeutics have been hampered by lack of a small animal model that recapitulates key features of the human disease.