The Muscular Dystrophy Association operates care centers across the country, linking patients with teams of specialists who work frequently with neuromuscular diseases. Spinal muscle atrophy (SMA ...

Atrophy: Thinning muscles and loss of strength. Fasciculations: A spontaneous and involuntary contraction of muscles that may be visible as twitching under the skin. There are several different motor ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Richard and Kaylee Lazaro had just welcomed twins Rykker and Bekkem, but Rykker was rushed to the NICU and later diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). He was able to ...

he said. Cirrhosis can occur in the late stages of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, which happens when fat builds up in the liver and can lead to inflammation ...

It was easy to cut and peg down and felt substantial and slightly woolly. The soil under the membrane remained moist and was 3°C warmer than bare soil. By the end of May there was a smattering of weed ...

Astellas Pharma is slowing things down in the inaugural consumer-facing marketing blast for eye disease drug Izervay ... It’s cleared to treat geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry ...

He is a member of the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. He is an investigator on the REMAP-CAP trial. Before the COVID ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene on chromosome 5, leading to the degeneration of lower motor neurons.

All these behavioral risk factors, together with the increased prevalence and poor management of NCDs, had indicated the cardiovascular disease crisis and increased burden of other related NCDs in ...

The quality of the clot is graded, but any clot suggests that there is a problem with the synovial membrane. Blood tests or other laboratory tests can also be ordered with the intent of supporting the ...

Voyager's in-house gene therapy development efforts have had some issues too, for example its VY-HTT01 gene therapy for Huntington disease was placed on clinical hold by the FDA at the end of 2020 ...