Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poorly functioning blood vessels lead to the characteristic muscle weakness that so many cancer patients experience. Artur ...

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial ...

In an age where screens dominate our lives, the importance of regular physical movement has never been more critical.

For more than two decades, researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have been investigating a severe form of muscular dystrophy in which muscles progressively degenerate. The research team ...

The first patient enrolled in a planned international clinical trial has been treated at HonorHealth Research Institute with a new type of immune therapy for those with a rare muscle-weakness disease ...

Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature Communications, "Analysis of human urinary extracellular ...

History gathering should solicit the patient’s abilities or limitations with these activities of daily living (ADLs). The patient may have mild arthralgias. Lungs are the most common extra muscular ...

That stubborn belly fat isn’t harmless. Doctors explain how it weakens abdominal muscles, increasing the risk of hernia. Follow these tips to reduce belly fat.

Two new studies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have investigated how mutations that occur in muscles and blood vessels over time can affect aging. The studies, which are published in Nature ...

While a gradual loss in muscle strength is a natural part of aging, for many older adults it's more than just feeling a little weaker. Sarcopenia -- a condition affecting nearly half of adults over 80 ...

Malignancies may initially present with muscle weakness and elevated muscle enzymes. Age and gender-specific cancer screening should be completed or updated in those with a myopathic process. 9,10 ...