Researchers studied 118 SMA type 2 patients and saw their RULM scores stayed higher than expected had their disease kept its ...

Drawing on some previous volunteer experience, columnist Sherry Toh takes on a new role at SMA News Today: forum moderator.

Motor improvements in SMA adults treated with Spinraza paralleled a boost in electrical impulses along nerves that supply ...

DySMA, to assess swallowing in children with SMA while undergoing treatment, was applied to healthy children to facilitate comparisons.

A doctor recently determined that columnist Brianna Albers had an airway collapse, but she'd been dwelling on something much worse.

Testing patient DNA with advanced methods like HapSMA — which can “[analyze] … SMN and its surrounding genes” — can reveal otherwise undetectable genetic changes, such as gene conversion, that affect ...

Last December, my brother kept badgering me about what I wanted for Christmas. I was so sick with a respiratory infection at the time that my only focus was on getting better, not a present. To my ...