Columnist Brianna Albers joins her parents on a drive to the South Carolina coast to pick up her first all-terrain wheelchair ...

Macrostructural changes in the brain were seven times more evident on scans among 21 SMA patients in the study, than in 21 ...

Making a move, columnist Ari Anderson finds, can bring advantages but also complications that must be resolved.

Columnist Helen Baldwin describes the period around her late son Jeffrey's difficult diagnosis and the concept of "ignorant ...

With this extension, the SMA treatment Evrysdi is available for patients of all ages in Japan, from presymptomatic newborns ...

Brianna Albers (she/her) is a crip-cyborg storyteller living in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 in 1996 and lives with co-occurring physical and mental ...

The gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi), given as a sole treatment, improves motor skills and preserves lung health and feeding abilities in infants with spinal muscular atrophy ...

I’ve slept with a BiPAP machine every night since I was 1 year old. (I’m 33 now.) This noninvasive ventilator delivers pressurized air to my lungs, providing my weakened muscles some respite by taking ...

Substantial differences in newborn screening (NBS) practices for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) across the U.S. could impact referral patterns or the timing of therapeutic interventions, a study shows.