muscular atrophy

Injecting medicine into amniotic fluid shows promise for treating genetic disorders

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Injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid staves off progression of spinal muscular atrophy in utero.  Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid, thus preventing damage that begins in utero. A UC San Francisco-led study found that delivering medicine for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) via … Read more

Blood Tests Highly Accurate in ALS Diagnosis, Prognosis

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TOPLINE: Four serum neurofilament light chain (NfL) tests showed high accuracy in diagnosing and predicting progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a new study. Investigators said the findings also offer diagnostic and prognostic cutoff values and lay the foundation for future use of the tests in clinical practice. METHODOLOGY: This study included 139 patients … Read more