A high-carbohydrate diet may help people with SMA, as they have metabolic alterations that lead to increased fat burning, per ...

Even though we thought initially that spinal muscular atrophy was simply a motor neuron disease ... used in conjunction with a muscle-directed therapy—so an SMN-directed therapy and a non ...

For the first time ever, doctors have treated a rare genetic disease known as spinal muscular atrophy ... affects motor neurons, the specialized cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

is a genetic neuromuscular disease that causes muscle atrophy and muscle weakness due to degeneration of the motor neuron. The causative gene for SMA is the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. The ...

In a hopeful step for medicine, a 2-and-a-half-year-old child born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ... production of the ...

For a boy with SMA in China, starting Evrysdi (risdiplam) just 12 days after birth was safe and helped him reach key motor ...