Not sure how to bring up a treatment change with your SMA doctor? Learn communication tips, key questions to ask, and a ...

Medical researchers have uncovered a novel mechanism that leads to motor neuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This discovery offers a new target for treatment that overcomes important ...

SMA type 3 is a hereditary disease that affects motor neurons. People may also refer to it as Kugelberg-Welander disease. Symptoms usually begin after 18 months of age. Children with SMA type 3 can ...

A new international study has shown that treating babies with spinal muscular atrophy before symptoms appear can dramatically improve outcomes.Emily ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

The lab of Yongchao C. Ma, PhD, at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago uncovered a novel mechanism that leads to motor neuron ...