NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some infants who have severe problems swallowing, a disorder called dysphagia, can learn to feed on their own, eliminating the need for long-term gastrostomy tubes, ...

Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare autosomal recessive disease that results in progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, can suffer the concerning consequences of dysphagia, which ...

Early treatment helps with swallowing and eating for SMA kids, but new research is needed on the effects of disease-modifying ...