Neuromuscular disorders affect the nerves that control certain muscles in your body. Some examples include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Neuromuscular disorders ...

High-intensity interval training outperforms standard home exercise in improving fitness for patients with inflammatory ...

The US HHS has added Duchenne muscular dystrophy and metachromatic leukodystrophy to newborn screening, citing benefits of early detection and access to FDA-approved treatments.

In a finding that opens the door to the development of targeted therapies for various muscle disorders, newly published research identifies key mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and growth of ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially attacking ...

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative method known as TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical functions of proteins through their ...

I've been blogging for a few years about misophonia, an auditory/neurological disorder that I have advocated for because I and (more importantly) one of my adult children are affected. Recently, at ...

Many people stop taking cholesterol-lowering statins because they experience muscle aches, weakness, and fatigue.