Based on its human toll, spinal muscular atrophy should fare better.

There is no known cure for spinal muscular atrophy.

The 19-month-old baby has the genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy, which leads to almost total paralysis.

My son has the most severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, a common genetic cause of death in young children.

As with many genetic disorders, there is no known cure to any disorder of the spinal muscular atrophies group.

Ms. Theriault has a condition called spinal muscular atrophy.

Based on the type of muscles affected, spinal muscular atrophies can be divided into:

To test that theory the scientists combed through the genetic material of 13 large families with multiple children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.

She has figures showing that the disease, spinal muscular atrophy, is badly underfinanced compared with similar diseases.

The severe forms of spinal muscular atrophy - which cause increasing muscle weakness, and often death, in children - cannot compete.

Spinal muscular atrophy and diabetes are also common, especially in the regions with the longest traditions of marriage between relatives.

Salbutamol has also been trialled in spinal muscular atrophy where it appears to show limited benefits.

His specific disability is spinal muscular atrophy.

Many of the lyrics were inspired by her disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic, often fatal neurological illness that causes loss of muscle control.

I'm a 41-year-old husband and father of two, a Harvard graduate born with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative neuromuscular condition.

This disorder should not be confused with pseudobulbar palsy or progressive spinal muscular atrophy.

Michael had spinal muscular atrophy; Juana had multiple sclerosis.

Instead, a number of other possibilities have to be ruled out, such as multifocal motor neuropathy or spinal muscular atrophy.

The clinical spectrum of various spinal muscular atrophies ranges from early infant death to normal adult life with only mild weakness.

When taking into account prevalence, spinal muscular atrophies are traditionally divided into::

Affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy, she uses a wheelchair.

It is currently being used to study spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as well.

Spinal muscular atrophy is the most common genetic disease causing death of babies, and currently there is no cure to it.

Because spinal muscular atrophy assumes such widely varying forms, scientists initially worried that the disease would prove especially difficult to pinpoint.