Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising reaction inside muscle cells that could explain why a popular cholesterol medication ...

Congenital myopathies are a group of rare, inherited muscle diseases that often cause muscle weakness in childhood. This ...

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 published in the journal ...

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 ...

An integrated analysis of individual human muscle fibres linked an inflammation-enriched molecular state in ICU-acquired weakness to prolonged ATP turnover in resting myosin.

"Lately, it has become difficult to stand up.""I feel like I've become slower at walking.""I get tired just from going out ...

When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most ...

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 ...

This article is part of a series introducing the latest research in sports science. This time, we cover a study from Japan ...

After a certain age, when muscle weakness and pain start to accompany exercise and simple daily tasks like getting up from a chair, we often dismiss it as part of the package of getting older. But ...

A case report in BMC Pediatrics shows how bedside diaphragmatic ultrasound identified reversible diaphragm weakness in an infant after ventilator weaning and guided a physiotherapy program that ...