Changes in motor units closely reflect disease severity in people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), suggesting potential ...

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist with spinal muscular atrophy who died in November, left behind a legacy of advocacy ...

Columnist Connie Chandler is often asked how her parents raised two children with SMA, so she decided to find out for herself ...

Evrysdi can stabilize motor function, improve swallowing ability, ease fatigue, and improve life quality for adults with SMA, ...

SMA children who can't walk have weaker upper leg bones than kids with cerebral palsy who are nonambulatory, a comparative ...

Let's have more conversations about intersecting identities and diverse representation in films and musicals, says columnist.

Columnist Connie Chandler may have limited control over her physical abilities, but she can always strengthen her faith and ...

Columnist Brianna Albers is not good at waiting. One might say she's terrible at it. Living with SMA, though, seems to bring a lot of it.

Throughout 2025, the team at SMA News Today has brought our audience the latest advances in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), from emerging treatments and clinical trial updates to real-world research.

Leuprorelin acetate, a prostate cancer medicine, may slow progression of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. SBMA is a genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness, usually first noticed in ...

The other day, I got my wheelchair stuck in a doorway. All I wanted to do was see the Christmas decorations at a local coffee shop. Perhaps even enjoy a nice cup of their matcha while quietly watching ...

The global birth prevalence of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which is the number of babies born with the disease, is about 1 in 10,000 live births. In the U.S., the rate is lower, at approximately 1 ...