Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA granted orphan drug designation and rare pediatric disease designation for a treatment for autosomal ...

The greatest reduction in skeletal muscle mass was in the lower extremities, a new report shows. Low skeletal muscle mass may be an early manifestation of fabry disease (FD), according to a new report ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Archaeologists in Egypt recently discovered evidence of an ancient case of rheumatoid arthritis, potentially ...

Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes (the great ape species are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans). While the evolution of the human skeleton ...

This illustration shows the major cell types affected by cellular senescence in various skeletal diseases. As the body ages, senescent cells accumulate in different tissues—including bone, cartilage, ...

In the journal Childhood in the Past, Ph.D. candidate Duru Yağmur Başaran published the results of an analysis of an over 900-year-old skeleton of a child. The study revealed that a 2.5 to ...

If your doctor has suggested that you may have a myopathy, you likely have a lot of questions. There are many types of myopathies with different causes and outlooks. Myopathies are a class of diseases ...

Simply put, your body can't turn fat into muscle. And the reverse is also true: Your body can't turn muscle into fat, either. Here's why. By analyzing what's left of an ice age grave site, researchers ...