Thirty-five per cent of maternal deaths in Kenya are caused by postpartum haemorrhage. Another 22 per cent by preeclampsia. Now, a University of Nairobi team is fighting back with VR ...

Cortisol is a stress hormone made by the adrenal glands that helps control your mood, metabolism, and immune response. High cortisol levels can lead to health problems like heart disease and ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine's School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences have discovered how muscle stem cells "flip a switch" to rebuild damaged muscle—a finding that could ...

Researchers have investigated the role of a certain enzyme in regulating energy in muscle and exercise performance for ...

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has required its first-year med students to do an anatomy lab since 1911. To do so, the school relies on living donors who give their bodies to ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned ...

Muscle loss, or atrophy, due to inactivity is common after illness, injury, hospitalization or falls, and becomes increasingly frequent with aging.

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

Chronic pain lasts longer for women than men, and new research suggests differences in hormone-regulated immune cells, called monocytes, may help explain why. In a new paper in Science Immunology , ...

The brachialis muscle helps you bend your elbow, especially when your palm is facing down. If you hurt your brachialis muscle, you might feel pain and have trouble moving your elbow. Seeing a doctor ...

Background: Respiratory muscle weakness is an important clinical problem. Tests of varying complexity and invasiveness are available to assess respiratory muscle strength. The relative precision of ...

Neuromuscular diseases comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by progressive impairment of muscle function resulting from defects in ...