Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While a novel scoring system may aid in diagnosing myositis, the heterogeneity of this group of conditions ...

Neil is KSBY's Senior Reporter and anchor of KSBY News Daybreak. He's one of your dedicated community reporters for the City of San Luis Obispo. Myositis is a debilitating disease that causes ...

A new drug to treat the muscle wasting disease inclusion body myositis (IBM) reverses key symptoms in mice and is safe and well-tolerated in patients, finds a new study led by the Medical Research ...

I have a patient with myositis and panniculitis. A muscle biopsy was normal (but was followed by pyogenic infection). Other test results are as follows: creatine phosphokinase (CPK) slightly elevated; ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, known collectively as myositis, are chronic diseases that cause disability, mainly from muscle weakness, despite the use of immunosuppressive therapies. An improved ...

Dermatomyositis is a rare muscle disease that causes inflammation of the muscles, skin, and blood vessels. It may also affect other organs, such as the heart and lungs. Dermatomyositis belongs to a ...

Amyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) is a subtype of dermatomyositis that involves skin symptoms without the associated muscle symptoms. Dermatomyositis is a rare condition characterized by a skin rash ...