Family’s delight at new ‘life-changing’ SMA screening for newborns

The roll-out of a new screening for babies to detect spinal muscular atrophy has been welcomed as a ‘life-changing’ development. An estimated six babies each year in Ireland are born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic disease causing progressive muscle weakness and atrophy. Screening for the disease was approved to be included in […] The post Family’s delight at new ‘life-changing’ SMA screening for newborns appeared first on everymum.