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In Allure's December 2022 profile on the actor, Jennifer Aniston gets candid about her fertility struggles and IVF: “I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston tells Allure.

Walk around the age of 10. most dont live past their 20s. but 12-year-old max seems to defy these odds. and jen believes its due to an experimental drug. max began weekly infusion treatments of the drug 2 1/2 years ago, part of a small clinical trial of 12 boys. austin didnt qualify because he was already in a wheelchair. how much of a difference has it had in their lives? >> i think youre literally looking right now at the mother of two children with duchenne, one who is going to be the first c...

Hope for these kids. >> reporter: if you were able to get this medication, what do you think it would do for you? >> i think it would help me be able to do -- be able to do the things i like and for it to be easier for me to do them, like play the drums. >> joining me now from washington is jen mcnary. you met her in the piece, austin and maxs mother. the fate of this experimental drug has been in limbo for quite some time. just this week, the fda did lay out a road map for the company, to condu...

Meet, it is their reality. ♪ 15-year-old austin mcclaire has always wanted to be part of the high school band but day-to-day his mom jen says it is becoming harder and harder to play. >> austins arm function is getting worse. i can see him struggling to lift his drum sticks. >> reporter: austin has a severe form of muscular destiny known as duschene. its the disease that jerry lewis has been raising money for, for the past 60 years. have you noticed anything over the last couple of years thats...

>> i think it would help me be able to do -- be able to do the things i like and for it to be easier for me to do them, like play the drums. >> joining me now from washington is jen mcnary. you met her in the piece, austin and maxs mother. the fate of this drug has been in limbo for quite some time. the fda did lay out a road map for the company, to conduct more trials, to get the drug possibly to more children and potentially lead to its approval if the ruls pan out. jen, you and i had a long c...

And jen believes its due to an experimental drug. max began weekly infusion treatments of the drug 2 1/2 years ago, part of a small clinical trial of 12 boys. austin didnt qualify because he was already in a wheelchair. >> how much of a difference has it had in their lives? >> i think youre literally looking right now at the mother of two children with duchenne, one who is going to be the first child to survive the disease and one who is going to have the last child to die from it. >> since the ...