My orthopedic consultation in Bologna

In October 26, I was in the orthopedic consultation with Dr. Greggi in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. Unfortunately I was given refusal to hold a scoliosis surgery, because I have problems with my breathing. But on October 28, I go to to the best doctor in the clinic neurologist M.Villanova in clinic Nigrisoli. He is checked my breath and said that it is possible to correct lung problems. He gave me hope that my condition will correct and possibly after that I will think about my surgery. In this clinic I saw department for people with SMA, I liked the cozy environment and good doctors.

The next day, October 29 Doctor Villanova spoke at an international European conference on spinal muscular atrophy in Bologna, where he presented my story about me and my photos. Unfortunately that day I leaved from Italy and I was not able to attend the conference.

I hope very soon to get back to this amazing clinic for examination.

Tomorrow I will arrive to Italy

Tomorrow morning I leave for Minsk to arrive on Tuesday in Milan. By the evening of October 25th I will arrive already in Bologna. On October 26th I will have an important day, I have medical consultation with Doctor Tiziana Greggi in the orthopedic clinic Institute Orthopedico Rizzoli. From this consultation decision depends of doctors about my future surgery scoliosis.

I have a lot of hope on this trip and expect that everything will turn out.

My future trip

Hi everyone!

After four days, I'm going on a trip is important for me. I'm preparing for the medical consultation in Institute Orthopedic Rizzoli in Bologna. I am very worried because from this visit will make a decision about my future surgery scoliosis.

Wish me good luck, that I really need right now.

New logo for "Believe in miracle by Monika Lemeshonok"

My blog "Believe in miracle by Monika Lemeshonok" has been new logotype My fight with SMA and in soon time it is will in all my SMA page and my SMA community. Follow this in soon time.

My first video "My life with SMA: I am artist"

Yesterday I have created my video channel "I believe in miracle by Monika Lemeshonok". This channel about my living with SMA. I invite all to following me.

This is my first video. My video about my life with SMA and my fight against this serious disease. In spite of my physical condition, I very cheerful person. I love to dream and set goals and targets for implementation. I have achieved a great deal in my life, because my disease did not break me and made me stronger than others.

Now I am famous artist in Europe. My artwork appreciate people around the world. And I'm so happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5o_IFuKAE

Biogen Completes Rolling Submission of New Drug Application to FDA

I AM HAPPY TODAY FROM THIS NEWS!

Biogen and Ionis today announced that Biogen has completed the rolling submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval of nusinersen, an investigational treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Biogen has also applied for Priority Review which, if granted, would shorten the review period of nusinersen following the Agency’s acceptance of the NDA.

“Since announcing the positive results of the ENDEAR interim analysis in infantile-onset SMA last month, we have heard from many families expressing their excitement about nusinersen. Their stories continue to inspire us and they are in the forefront of our minds as we work to support the FDA’s review of nusinersen,” noted Alfred Sandrock, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer at Biogen. “We appreciate the FDA’s collaboration with us during the application process, and we look forward to continuing this productive dialogue, with the goal of rapidly bringing the first treatment for SMA to as many patients as possible.”

In addition to the NDA filing with FDA, Biogen plans to submit a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for nusinersen to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in the coming weeks. The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recently granted Accelerated Assessment to nusinersen, which can reduce the standard review time. Biogen will initiate regulatory filings in other countries in the coming months.

NEXT:http://www.curesma.org/news/biogen-completes-nda-submission.html

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Together we can cure all disease by the end of the century.

Priscilla and I just shared our next major focus for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Can we help scientists to cure, prevent or manage all diseases within our children's lifetime?

I'm optimistic we can. And I hope you'll join us on this journey to a better future.

Medicine has only been a modern science for about a century, and we've made incredible progress so far. Life expectancy has increased by 1/4 of a year per year since then, and if we only continue this trend, the average will reach 100 around the end of this century.

Today, just four kinds of diseases cause the majority of deaths. We can make progress on all of them with the right technology.

Throughout history, most scientific breakthroughs have been preceded by the invention of new tools to help us see problems in new ways -- like the telescope, the microscope and DNA sequencing.

It's not hard to imagine the modern tools required to accelerate breakthroughs in today's four major disease area. So we're going to focus on bringing scientists and engineers together to build these new tools and technologies.

Today, we announced a few steps in this direction:

Dr. Cori Bargmann, a world-renowned expert in neuroscience and genetics, is joining the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead this initiative. We are thrilled to welcome her.

We are committing to invest $3 billion over the next decade in this initiative to help scientists cure diseases.

Our first project is creating the Biohub. We're investing $600 million in a new research hub to bring scientists and engineers together from Stanford, UCSF, Berkeley, and the world-class engineering team we're building at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, in order to build some of the new tools I mentioned above.

The science initiative is a long term effort. We plan to invest billions of dollars over decades. But it will take years for these tools to be developed and longer to put them into full use. This is hard and we need to be patient, but it's important.

This is about the future we want for our daughter and children everywhere. If there's a chance that we can help cure all diseases in our children's lifetimes, then we will do our part. Together, we have a real shot at leaving the world a better place for our children than we found it.

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