In recent years, Celine Dion has been in the spotlight of the world due to her fight against an incurable disease ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Patient advocate Austin Leclaire, who died Feb. 1, played a pivotal role in spurring the development of the first medicines ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy, has found that poor muscle health can ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger -- able to stand and walk more easily -- when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.

A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) regain some muscle function, giving the ...

In fact, the heart risk associated with fatty muscle was independent of BMI and other known heart risk factors, results show. “Knowing that intermuscular fat raises the risk of heart disease gives us ...

Share on Pinterest Muscle fat may increase heart disease risk more than subcutaneous fat, a new study warns. Image credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images. Heart disease is the number one killer in the ...