Muscle loss after 60 doesn’t happen overnight, but it accelerates quietly when movement patterns shrink. Sitting more, avoiding load, and relying on machines or occasional workouts teaches muscles to ...

Courtney Southwick is a writer focusing on health, nutrition, and disease. She has been blogging for the past two years at CourtneySouthwick.com. She writes blogs and articles for online publications ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

Two-part preclincal and clinical development programme launched to assess potential benefits of administering S-pindolol benzoate during and post-GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy to improve muscle mass, ...

Motor improvements in adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treated with Spinraza (nusinersen) paralleled a boost in the strength and duration of electrical impulses along nerves that supply the ...

That’s not a vanity statement for those who want to look good or a performance issue for those who want to be better, stronger, and faster. It’s a medical issue and has been for a long time. And if ...

The decremental response follows repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) completed earlier in proximal muscles compared with distal muscles in a study of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and ...

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 ...

It's no secret that our muscles begin to weaken as we age. But scientists are only just beginning to understand the mechanisms underlying these changes, and what our muscles can do to combat them. Our ...

Interactions between Purkinje fibers and ventricular muscle were studied in canine Purkinje-papillary muscle preparations. The change in duration of action potentials across the junctions between ...