Fighting Back Podcast

fighting-back-24-110426.mp3 Welcome back to the only podcast dedicated to information about SMA and the stories of people fighting it and other serious or incurable diseases.  If you haven’t listened to this podcast before, you can subscribe via the Fighting Back Podcast RSS feed, or at the F...

fighting-back-23-100428.mp3 In this episode of Fighting Back Podcast, we talk with Chad Boerst from Hill-Rom.  Hill-Rom is a sponsor of the 2010 FightSMA Annual Conference, in Washington D.C.  The company was also a sponsor of the 2009 conference. Chad tells us about the products that Hill-Rom man...

fighting-back-22-092409.mp3 A Fighter Mom is someone who has been touched by tragedy, and gains the will to fight to help ensure no one else has to deal with the same pain.  In this episode of Fighting Back Podcast, we meet someone who fits that description to a “T”. Kyra Oliver’s...

fighting-back-21-090820.mp3 People frequently ask, “What is a Fighter Mom?”  Fight SMA president and Fighter Mom founder Martha Slay recently spoke with an entire room full of them, at the Rhett Syndrome Foundation’s 25th Annual Conference in Northern Virginia.  She discussed the...

fighting-back-20-090708.mp3 Genetic testing can be an incredible tool, but it can be difficult to understand how it works and what to expect.  We’re honored to have as our guest on the latest episode of Fighting Back Podcast, Dr. Joann Bodurtha, a geneticist from Virginia Commonwealth Univers...

fighting-back-19-090201.mp3 This is part 2 of our 2009 State of the Disease Podcast for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, where we look back at the scientific advances in SMA research in 2008 and look forward to what might come in 2009.  This two-part series features the co-chairs of FightSMA’s scientific...

fighting-back-18-090206.mp3 2008 was an important year in spinal muscular atrophy research, as scientists and doctors continued their work to find a treatment or cure for the neuromuscular disease.  This episode of Fighting Back Podcast is the first part of our yearly “look back and look forw...

fighting-back-17-080904.mp3 This is the last in a series of four Fighting Back Podcast episodes that feature audio from the Fighter Mom Friday event, held on May 9, 2008 in New York City.  The workshop was designed to educate, inform, and inspire attendees fighting against diseases or conditions af...

fighting-back-16-080626.mp3 This is the third in a series of Fighting Back Podcast episodes featuring audio from the Fighter Mom Friday event, held on May 9, 2008 in New York City.  The workshop was designed to educate, inform, and inspire attendees fighting against diseases or conditions affecting...

fighting-back-15-080604.mp3 This is the second in a series of Fighting Back Podcast episodes that includes the audio of seminars from Fighter Mom Friday. The workshop, held on May 9, 2008 in New York City, was designed to educate, inform, and inspire attendees fighting against diseases or conditions...