The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 years and older with confirmed mutation in ...

ORLANDO -- The PRIMA system combining a subretinal photovoltaic implant and eyeglasses that project near-infrared light to the implant significantly improved vision in patients with geographic atrophy ...

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

Mary is the bedrock of her family. “She’s the one we all go to,” says her son Eric. “She’s selfless, extremely sweet, very personable—but she can also be very feisty.” So when she returned from an eye ...

Vitamin supplements known to potentially slow the progression of intermediate age-related macular degeneration do not seem to have a similar effect on geographic atrophy, an advanced form of the dry ...

Risdiplam, an oral pre–messenger RNA splicing modifier, is an efficacious treatment for persons with symptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The safety and efficacy of risdiplam in presymptomatic ...

Patients with breast cancer who undergo chemotherapy may face an increased risk for brain atrophy and cognitive decline, new findings from a pilot study suggested. Memory problems in patients with ...

Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD) is a rare genetic condition that typically affects infants and children. It causes muscle weakness and breathing problems. Spinal muscular ...

Panelists discuss how spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive genetic disease affecting motor neurons with 3 currently approved disease-modifying therapies that restore SMN protein ...

New research links diffuse-trickling patterns in fundus autofluorescence to increased ellipsoidal zone loss, highlighting potential biomarkers for rapid geographic atrophy progression. A recent report ...

It is unclear why only some patients with lacunar infarction and radiological evidence of diffuse white matter abnormalities have dementia. The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of ...