Spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy both affect muscle size and function, causing weakness and leading to health complications like difficulty walking, swallowing, and, for some people, ...

Distal spinal muscular atrophy is a type of spinal muscular atrophy that primarily affects your hands and feet along with your lower arms and legs. Treatments focus on relieving symptoms. A genetic ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic condition that is passed down through families. It leads to muscle weakness, which may affect everyday functions such as head movement, sitting without help, ...

As with any chronic disease, but especially with one that limits the patient’s mobility or ability to breathe, a heavy burden falls on the caregiver, be it a healthcare professional, close friend, or ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and spina bifida are distinct conditions that affect the nerves that allow for voluntary motor control. Share on Pinterest press coverage photography/Getty Images SMA is ...

Panelists discuss how the current spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment landscape includes 3 options: gene therapy (onasemnogene abeparvovec [Zolgensma]) for younger patients and 2 splice modifiers ...

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs. Previously, ...

"Managing pain in patients with SMA begins with the recognition that there are predictable etiologies leading to pain in SMA and investigating them during each medical visit is important to implement ...

Cenrifki prevents MS disease progression and Itvisma delivers a healthy gene-to-cell nuclei, addressing the root cause of SMA.

In 2016, Spinraza became the first FDA-approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. Researchers have found a way the therapeutic effects of Spinraza may be improved. They discovered that pairing ...

When a doctor tells you that your child has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), you may feel overwhelmed and full of questions. SMA is rare -- only one in 6,000 to one in 10,000 people have it. So your ...

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