Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While scientists are ...

Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and ...

Long COVID affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide and can damage the brain, heart, blood vessels, and immune system ...

A new study led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) suggests that currently available therapies may help control chronic muscle inflammation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a ...

Myositis is a group of conditions that cause muscle inflammation and weakness. Viral myositis occurs as a complication of a viral infection, such as influenza viruses or enteroviruses. Viral myositis, ...

Muscle pain that does not go away after several days or is accompanied by symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, and extreme weakness requires medical assistance. Muscle pain, also called ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have demonstrated that iron supplementation can significantly alleviate muscle pathology ...

Credit: Getty Images Our work suggests that targeting the brain-muscle axis could offer new treatment strategies for muscle fatigue. Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s ...