From the diaphragm to the pelvic floor, scientists say improving your core strength can protect your spine and help you move ...

Winter's allure of cozy indoors can weaken bones and muscles, especially for seniors. Reduced activity leads to muscle ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Treating rheumatoid arthritis with tofacitinib for 6 months is linked to an increase in lower limb muscle volume, especially in the thigh, and a rise in serum creatinine levels.

Whether they're patients with degenerative diseases or astronauts in weightless environments, there are some people who need to know if their muscles are wasting away. A new wearable could one day ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

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 mass ...

Sarepta said on Monday that its late-stage study testing two gene-targeted therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy did not ...

But Lee, now 35, refused to be defined by his diagnosis. Instead, he turned to the world — literally — by planning his ...