Recent news that legendary guitarist Peter Frampton was diagnosed with inclusion body myositis startled the world, but this rare inflammatory disease of the muscles is very familiar to me. I have been ...

Q: I started to develop weakness that made it hard for me to get out of a chair. My doctor thinks it may be polymyositis and referred me to a specialist. What is this disease? A: Polymyositis (PM) is ...

Dear Anon.: I wish I had better news for you. Inclusion body myositis is an inflammatory disease of muscles with an unknown cause. The “inclusion bodies’’ are seen on the muscle biopsy specimens.

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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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — One of the University of Tennessee football’s standouts from last year’s team is now in a battle with a rare disease called Myositis. The disease can cause serious damage to ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead ...

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 ...

The ability to diagnose myositis diseases and treat them properly just improved immensely. For more than 40 years, the criteria physicians have used to diagnose most myositis diseases has been based ...