Cachexia is a metabolic disorder that causes uncontrolled weight loss and muscle wasting in chronic diseases and cancer.

The tiny zebrafish is helping researchers rapidly determine whether a newborn's genetic mutation is likely to cause spinal ...

A mother's love drives her to pursue experimental treatment as two of her four children battle a rare genetic disease that ...

Cachexia is a metabolic disorder that causes uncontrolled weight loss and muscle wasting in chronic diseases and cancer. A new study by Helmholtz Munich, in collaboration with the Institute of ...

Prolonged air pollution linked to increase of incurable muscle-wasting diseases, study suggests - Scientists said the link ...

Amy Moffatt's four-year-old son, Oakley, has the most serious form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), which causes progressive paralysis and breathing problems. | ITV News West Country ...

The tiny zebrafish is helping researchers rapidly determine whether a newborn's genetic mutation is likely to cause spinal ...

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

A recent large study conducted in Sweden has found that long-term exposure to elevated levels of air pollution may increase the risk for the development of motor neuron disease (MND), as well as ...

The 34-year-old singer recently shared the devastating news that her children have Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1, which ...

Huntington's disease is caused by an inherited genetic change that causes production of an altered protein. This leads to nerve damage in areas of the brain that control movement and thinking.

The fix to this problem might come in the form of tools instead of changes to the spacesuit itself. Rubins said astronauts ...