spinal muscular atrophy

Apr 20, 2022

Drug pricing is one of the hottest topics in the healthcare segment. Several arguments have been put forward by people, governments, healthcare companies, and other organizations in favor of and against expensive medicines. Some of the drugs are so expensive that they are nearly out of reach of the common people. H...

Aug 11, 2020

Roche Set to Compete With Biogen and Novartis in the SMA Market With its First Oral Therapy  The US FDA has recommended the use of Evrysdi (risdiplam), a candidate of Genentech, a Roche company, for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease resulting in muscle atrophy, in adults and...

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 ...

Jun 19, 2019

The era, we are living in has experienced many advancements in the healthcare system. Curative, and life-changing gene therapies have started to promise a future free of prolonged illness, possessing an ability to treat, cure or ease the life-draining diseases. In a major event, the approval of the other gene t...

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 26, 2019

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disorder that affects the part of the nervous system which controls the voluntary movement of limbs and muscles. SMA results in the loss of motor neurons in the Spinal Cord. SMA is one of the most common causes of infant mortality and mobility impairment. Spinal Muscular A...

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 ...

Oct 25, 2018

Innovent Biologics reaps USD 421 Million by Hong Kong IPO Innovent Biologics got delivered USD 421 million in its IPO. The Suzhou-based unicorn priced 236.35 million shares near the top of the range at HK USD 13.98. The USD 245 million is given by a group of 10 cornerstone investors, because of which Innovent’s tot...