An Edmond family is on a mission to find a cure. For a decade, Michael Gehr has been battling Friedreich's ataxia, a rare neurological disease that impacts the body's muscle movement and heart. Only ...

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today announced positive interim data across all dose cohorts of LX2006 for the treatment of Friedreich ataxia (FA) cardiomyopathy. In both the Lexeo-sponsored SUNRISE-FA Phase 1/2 clinical trial ...

Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is a neurodegenerative disease most people have never heard of, and it remains widely misunderstood —and for the hundreds of Canadians who live with it, the lack of ...

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There are several current treatment options for Friedreich's ataxia, or FA as I'll call it for the rest of this time. The most important is what we had before the approval of any drugs.

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What Is Friedreich’s Ataxia? Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is a rare condition. It causes damage to your nervous system that gets worse over time. As a result, you may have abnormal movements ...

In such cases, an inability to balance is a symptom known as ataxia. But ataxia can also be its own condition or disease. As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the ...