In recent years, Celine Dion has been in the spotlight of the world due to her fight against an incurable disease ...

Patient advocate Austin Leclaire, who died Feb. 1, played a pivotal role in spurring the development of the first medicines ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy, has found that poor muscle health can ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger -- able to stand and walk more easily -- when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.