"Muscle wasting, and not the tumor itself, is often the killer," said Gustavo Nader, associate professor of kinesiology, Penn State. "That's why it is important to study what is happening at the ...

Skeletal muscle atrophy, or wasting, is a devastating and often irreversible syndrome during the aging process and for patients with advanced cancer. Muscle wasting involves a decrease in muscle ...

Known as MAGENTA (mechanically active gel-elastomer-nitinol tissue adhesive), the experimental device prevents muscle wasting in animals, the team reports. It’s an “exciting advance” for treating ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

Late-stage trial data for Roche’s drug against muscle-wasting Elevidys showed positive results after two years of treatment for male patients aged 4 or older with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

SMA is caused by a genetic defect that attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord, leading to muscle wasting, particularly in the legs, hips, and shoulders. While gene therapy offers a lifeline for ...

Muscle wasting was detected in 39 (19.5%) subjects. Patients with muscle wasting had significantly lower values for muscle strength, as well as lower total peak oxygen consumption, lower exercise ...

People with advanced cancers often feel like their bodies are wasting away. That’s because of cachexia, a condition in which impaired metabolism leads to muscle wasting and drastic weight loss ...

Then Capogrosso wondered if that same technology might help SMA in a similar way — by revving up related sensory nerves so they wake up damaged muscle cells, helping them move to combat wasting.

Hundreds of children born with a degenerative muscle-wasting disease are to be offered a new drug on the NHS that can slow the deadly condition’s progression. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ...

A Spine-Zapping Implant Helped 3 People With a Muscle-Wasting Disease Walk Better WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger ...