cervical only), or who were diagnosed with flail arm or flail leg syndromes or other disorders such as spinal bulbar muscular atrophy or multifocal motor neuropathy, were excluded from analysis.

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, also known as Kennedy’s disease, is a rare adult-onset form of SMA that causes muscle weakness and atrophy in the face and throat, as well as the limbs. Kennedy's ...

3 While the split-hand phenomenon is more commonly observed in spinal-onset ALS, it is also observed in bulbar onset ALS as well as patients ... such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), spinocerebellar ...

Back to Healio Topline results from a phase 3 clinical trial showed an investigational gene therapy for young people with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 increased mobility and slowed disease ...

Positive results from its Phase III STEER study mean Novartis could boost sales of its OAV101 IT drug for spinal muscular ...

Novartis is in the trial phase for a new experimental medicine that has shown promise in improving motor function in children with a form of spinal muscular atrophy, according to a Dec. 30 report from ...

Novartis has reported positive topline outcomes from the Phase III STEER trial of an investigational gene therapy, ...

Bray has spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative disease that's gradually robbed him of the ability to move his muscles. At age 29, he can no longer move his head, arms, hands or legs.

Spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, a genetic neuromuscular disorder with progressive muscle wasting due to mutation in the SMN1 gene, deficiency in SMN protein, and loss of motor neurons, 3D illustration ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic condition mostly caused by inherited mutations in the SMN1 gene, although rarer forms of the disease can arise due to mutations in a number of other ...

Patients with SMA, which has no cure, typically achieve a better quality of life through physical therapy, posture management, and, among other things, nutritional support. 4 Providing individualized ...