The mother of a four-year-old boy with a rare muscle disease says screening newborn babies for the condition could "save ...

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 ...

Researchers in public health have reported in the first broad study in the United States the frequency of two muscle-weakness disorders that strike mostly boys: Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker ...

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

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 ...

Short-term muscle weakness is common and can be caused by something as simple as a tough workout. However, persistent muscle weakness without apparent cause could indicate an underlying health ...

On Thursday, Amgen Inc (NASDAQ:AMGN) announced new data from the Phase 3 MINT trial of Uplizna (inebilizumab-cdon) for adult patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), a chronic autoimmune ...

Nelson's twins, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, have been diagnosed with a rare neuromuscular disorder called Spinal Muscular ...

A 30-year-old African-American woman presented to the emergency department for medical assessment after becoming too weak to walk. She reported proximal muscle aches in both arms and legs, a skin rash ...

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 ...

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 ...