She recognised that dealing with an illness can often be isolating, which is why she felt it was important to share her ...

The off-label use of JAK inhibitors to treat JDM is common in pediatric rheumatology, with barriers to use including limited clinical trial data and insurance approval.

Rashes are a common side effect of some prostate cancer treatments. Rarely, they may be caused by cancer cells.

Objectives Myositis is a heterogeneous family of diseases including dermatomyositis (DM), immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS) and inclusion body myositis (IBM).

Objective To describe decline in muscle strength and physical function in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM). Methods Manual muscle testing (MMT), quantitative muscle testing (QMT) ...

7 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America 8 Harvard Medical School, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America Background Inclusion body myositis (IBM), a ...

Muscles are attached to bones by tendons. Muscles contract to move our bones by pulling on them. However, muscles can only pull; they cannot push. This is why they usually work a joint in pairs ...

Most causes of new onset muscle weakness are serious. True weakness points to diseases of the spinal cord or its nerves. Nerves carry messages from the spinal cord to the muscles in the arms and legs.

Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...