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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month - August 2025

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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month takes place every year in August to raise awareness of SMA, to support individuals and families and to advocate for access to timely diagnosis and treatment.  This year, the aim is to highlight the importance of adding SMA to the Newborn Screening blood spot test in the UK.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

  • Pediatric neurology; Holmes, Gregory L; Bingham, Peter M; 2016 (Oxford University Press); 2nd edition - [only available as an e-book – available for Keele & NHS users]
  • Merritt's neurology; Louis, Elan D; Mayer, Stephan A; Rowland, Lewis P; 2016 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins); 13th edition.
  • Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology; Ashwal, Stephen; 2026 (Elsevier); 7th edition - [only available as an NHS e-book through ClinicalKey with an NHS Open Athens login]

 JOURNALS   

  • Annals of neurology (Online); American Neurological Association & Child Neurology Society (Wiley) – available as a Keele e-journal from 1999 onwards.
  • Child neurology open; (Sage Publications) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards.
  • Neurology. Genetics; American Academy of Neurology (Lippincott Williams) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2015 onwards.
  • BMJ neurology open; British Medical Association, issuing body; (British Medical Association) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2019 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

 OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES  

 PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

 KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.  

 

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