Drugs, genes and screens: the ethics of preventing and treating spinal muscular atrophy

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common genetic disease that causes infant mortality. Its treatment and prevention represent the paradigmatic example of the ethical dilemmas of 21st‐century medicine. New therapies (nusinersen and AVXS‐101) hold the promise of being able to treat, but not cu...

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Main Authors: Gyngell, C, Stark, Z, Savulescu, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019