Spinal muscular atrophy

• A newborn babys battle with spinal muscular atrophy inspired her parents to start a bucket list blog. HULIQ reports on Averys Bucket List blog, a site that aims to spread awareness of Averys illness, which progressively weakens muscle function.
(Huffington Post)
• ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.
(Yahoo Finance)
• The trial of RG3039 marked the first of a new drug specifically designed to treat SMA.
(PR Newswire)
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Pipeline Review, H1 2012 - Global Markets Directs, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Pipeline Review, H1 2012, provides an overview of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) therapeutic pipeline.
(new market research report - Transworld News)
• ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) — An abnormally low level of a protein in certain nerve cells is linked to movement problems that characterize the deadly childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research in animals suggests.
(Science Daily)
• After Laura and Mike Canahuati of Houston, T.X. received the call from their neurologist which confirmed their worst fear: their little girl had been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and had a mere 18 months to live.
(The Inquisitr)
• Doctors told her family last year the 1 1/2-year-old had spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that is the leading genetic killer of children younger than 2. "I didn't process it well," said Brooklyn's mother, Julie Reddick, 22, of Mountain Home.
(Baxter Bulletin)