Jesy Nelson, who gave birth to twins Ocean and Story prematurely in May, said the girls were diagnosed with type 1 spinal ...

Jesy Nelson gave birth to her twin girls prematurely in May 2025 - now she's revealed her six-month-olds have been diagnosed ...

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 ...

Former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson revealed on social media that her twin girls have been diagnosed with a rare genetic ...

Little Mix star Jesy Nelson's baby twins have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Early treatment is essential but ...

When we think about genetic diseases, the ones that usually come to mind are cystic fibrosis, Fragile X and, of course, Tay-Sachs disease. One disease that many people are not aware of is spinal ...

A 5-year-old boy who was born with a rare genetic condition is now able to walk by himself, his mother has said, after ...

Infants with spinal muscular atrophy often have profound swallowing deficits in the first year of life if not treated with disease-modifying therapies. A recent study examined the characteristics, ...

NBS programs are fairly new in the U.S., so not much is known about variations among them or about provider practice patterns for newborns with SMA. In a survey of providers and state NBS programs, ...

At its core, SMA is caused by a deficiency in a protein called Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) . This protein is essential for ...

Little Mix alum Jesy Nelson opened up in an emotional video Jan. 4 about her twin daughters’ Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 diagnosis, a life-threatening disease that leads to severe muscle weakness.

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 ...