Biogen Spinraza

Aug 30, 2019

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a rare and the second most fatal autosomal recessive genetic disorder with an incidence of 1 in 6000 to 1 in 10,000 births. Globally talking, SMA prevalence was reported in 19,343 cases in the year 2017 in the 7MM, and the US accounted for the highest number of cases approximately around ...

May 27, 2019

The U.S. FDA recently approved the much talked about Novartis’s drug Zolgensma for treating a life-threatening condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).  SMA is a neuromuscular disorder that worsens the muscles over time. It happens due to a mutation in the SMN1 gene that results in the deficiency of an SMN protein,...

May 06, 2019

SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) - a disease that takes away the physical strength of people by affecting the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, also people have a problem in walking, eating, or breathing. Spinal Muscular Atrophy market size is increasing at a CAGR of 10.42% for the study period (2017-2028). ...

Apr 29, 2019

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) being a rare genetic neuromuscular disorder results in progressive muscle weakness and atrophy. It affects the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement. Spinal Muscular Atrophy Current therapeutic management revolves around supportive and multidisciplinary car...

Apr 24, 2019

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder characterised by weakness and wasting (atrophy) of skeletal muscles, used for movement. Loss of specialised nerve cells, called motor neurons which controls muscle movement, results in weakness of muscles. It mostly affects proximal muscles and respiratory muscles. SMA ...