Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

The FDA and EMA have both accepted Biogen’s applications for a higher dose regimen of Spinraza (nusinerse) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ... and is the second most common autosomal recessive cause ...

Nusinersen, marketed as SPINRAZA, targets the underlying cause of SMA and has been ... to advancing treatment options for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The new dosing regimen has the potential ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare hereditary neuromuscular ... Cytomegalovirus (CMV), which causes a cold-like illness, can be spread in the same way as other viruses from person to person ...

From February 12, all newborn babies will be offered screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare progressive neuromuscular disease. SMA will be one of more than 20 other rare disorders ...

McClurken-Gibney was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare, inherited neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and wasting due to nerve cell dysfunction. Before his death at the ...

Background: Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) or Kennedy disease [OMIM ... without benign prostatic hyperplasia has been reported in up to 40% of the patients (25). The cause of LUTS in these ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic condition that can cause muscle weakness. Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive genetic neuromuscular condition affecting spinal motor neurons. The underlying cause of SMA is deletions or mutations in the SMN gene. It is classified ...