Veterans fighting the muscle disease known as IBM say they want the U.S. government to recognize their condition as ...

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 new method allows large quantities of muscle stem cells to be safely obtained in cell culture. This provides a potential for treating patients with muscle diseases -- and for those who would like to ...

The VA notified Greg Rathburn it had reversed its decision, giving him full compensation, and acknowledged multiple errors in its earlier review of his claim.

Myasthenia gravis is a rare chronic condition that affects an estimated 150 to 200 out of every million people globally.

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 ...

Rare neuromuscular diseases often lack treatments because developing targeted drugs is slow, costly and risky for companies.

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 ...

Alzheimer’s disease steals memory, independence and, too often, life itself. Drugs can ease symptoms, but none halt the march of the illness. For years, scientists have aimed their efforts at the ...