Improving sleep quality with SMA can involve support for physical comfort, breathing, muscle weakness, and body temperature.

Speech therapy helps people with SMA by improving speech clarity, breath control, swallowing, and communication device use.

Yard work reminds columnist Helen Baldwin of allergic reaction blisters at a time of trauma, and how they're part of a web of ...

Columnist Connie Chandler gets engaged in making doughnuts for children, just one of many playtime activities she and her ...

A study shows that 80% of spinal muscular atrophy patients have intermittent pain, with more than half experiencing pain at ...

Columnist Alyssa Silva needs to plan carefully and research accessibility and parking to attend a minor league ballgame.

The European Commission approved a tablet formulation of SMA treatment Evrysdi, a form aimed at giving patients more ...

Lila is a Science Writer at BioNews. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Washington, where she studied ...

Ari Anderson resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was diagnosed with SMA type I at 6 months old in 1982. At the time, the prognosis was almost hopeless. Today’s medical therapies have changed the ...