Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a debilitating genetic condition that’s usually fatal by a few years of age. But an ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, doctors have successfully treated a life-threatening motor neuron disease in a baby ...

"The body of the baby, the digestive system is different, the oral motor system develops different too," Santos Pagon said. "The respiratory system is going to be optimal too. Different conditions ...

SMA is caused by a defect in the survival motor neuron ... early treatment, most babies will not live to see their second ...