A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered how exercise helps aging muscles regain their ability to repair ...

Back pain may be common with age and deskbound lives, but when it is accompanied by numbness or weakness, doctors warn it ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently ...

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 ...

Infectious or chronic diseases such as COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While scientists are ...

Rozanolixizumab improved muscle weakness and fatigue in myasthenia gravis patients, as shown in the MycarinG study using MG Symptoms PRO scales. Strong correlations were found between MG Symptoms PRO ...

Scientists from the Duke-NUS Medical School have found out how exercise helps aging muscles repair themselves. This ...

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 ...