A mother whose son was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) when he was ten days old has urged singer Jesy Nelson to "take all the help she can get" for the condition. The former Little Mix star revealed that her twin baby daughters have the condition and said she has been told they may never walk.

Complement Therapeutics GmbH (CTx), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for complement-mediated diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation for CTx001,

For those of you that don't know what SMA 1 is, it is the most severe muscular disease that a baby can get," Jesy Nelson said.

Spinal muscular atrophy explained after Jesy Nelson reveals her twins’ diagnosis - The singer shared an emotional update about her twins’ health on Sunday and that ‘time is of the essence with this di

Muscle atrophy, as the name suggests, is a weakening or reduction of muscle due to lack of use or due to a disease. It is a result of a mismatch between the rates of protein synthesis and protein breakdown. Protein is required for muscle mass, therefore ...

Dublin, Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Geographic Atrophy Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Country and Region - Analysis and Forecast, 2025-2035" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global geographic atrophy ...

Researchers from the University of Zurich and collaborating institutions published a retrospective study in the Journal of Oral Implantology evaluating long-term outcomes of two zygomatic implant techniques--quad-zygoma and hybrid-zygoma--for patients with severe maxillary atrophy.