Episode 95: Expanding Potential for Long-Term Treatment in SMA

Thomas Crawford, MD

Episode 95 of the NeurologyLive^® Mind Moments^® podcast is now live! Scroll down to listen or click here to subscribe on your favorite streaming service.

The Mind Moments podcast features exclusive interviews with leaders in the field discussing the latest research and disease management strategies across the breadth of neurology, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, dementia, sleep disorders, and more.

Episode 95, "Expanding Potential for Long-Term Treatment in SMA," features an exclusive interview with Thomas Crawford, MD, a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who spoke on the recently published 5-year analysis of the NURTURE study (NCT02386553), a long-term trial assessing the efficacy and safety of nusinersen (Spinraza; Biogen) in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Crawford discussed the significance of the positive findings, the shift in conversations around treatment optimization in SMA, and how subgroup data may factor into the design of future trials.

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The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here:

• World Health Organization Adds Several MS Treatments to List of Essential Medicines
• Ceribell's Status Epilepticus Software Receives FDA Clearance With CMS NTAP Coverage Included
• FDA Accepts New Drug Application for Long-Acting Form of Glatiramer Acetate
• Essential Tremor Agent Ulixacaltamide Continues to Show Positive Results in Essential1 Study
  

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

• 1:20 – Benefits seen with nusinersen in NURTURE 
• 4:10 – Changes in goals for treating SMA
• 6:05 – Complexities with getting infants therapy days after diagnosis
• 9:40 – Neurology News Minute
• 12:30 – Subgroup findings from NURTURE
• 15:20 – Ways to improve treatment optimization in SMA

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