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Cure SMA Urges States to Start SMA Newborn Screenings This Year

For the new year, Cure SMA is stepping up its efforts to get states not testing for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) at birth to implement the practice — noting that such newborn screenings could dramatically improve patients’ quality of life. Some 17 states began newborn screenings for SMA…

Protest Secures Spinraza for All SMA Patients in Romania

An October 2019 protest by adults with spinal muscular atrophy led to an agreement under which all of Romania’s 152 known SMA patients — and those yet to be diagnosed — will gain access to Spinraza (nusinersen), Biogen’s approved treatment for this neuromuscular disease. Romanian doctors began treating…