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August 17, 2017
Two Cure SMA-funded projects have recently been published. Diane Murrell and her team published the paper, "The Experience of Families With Children With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type I Across Health Care Systems" in the Journal of Child Neurology. Deborah Boroughs' paper, “An Evaluation of a Continuing Education Program for Families of Ventilator-Dependent Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)”, was published in Children.
June 2, 2017
Anthem Inc. recently announced an updated insurance policy for the use of Spinraza (nusinersen) for treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. The revised policy expands criteria for treatment to onset of SMA-associated signs and symptoms before 21 months of age; the previous policy’s criteria for treatment of onset symptoms was 6 months or younger.
December 23, 2016
FDA APPROVAL!
On December 23, 2016, the FDA announced that it had approved Spinraza, a treatment developed by Biogen and Ionis, making it the first-ever approved therapy for SMA. Cure SMA provided the very first research funding for this program beginning in 2003. The drug pipeline also tracks the implementation of this and other therapies as they are approved.