Myasthenia gravis (MG) has been treatable for nearly 100 years. In 1934, the Scottish doctor Mary Broadfoot Walker, MD, discovered that the drug physostigmine improved muscle function in people with ...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies bind to acetylcholine receptors or to functionally related molecules in the postsynaptic membrane at the neuromuscular junction. The ...

A new study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and Cartesian Therapeutics, found that immunotherapy can help ...

Ocular myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition affecting the muscles surrounding and involving the eyes. Symptoms can include double vision, droopy eyelids, and more. Ocular myasthenia gravis ...

Combination of quantitative features from H&E biopsies and CT scans predicts response to chemotherapy and overall survival in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). First long-term results on efficacy and ...

Regular low to moderate intensity exercise is usually safe with myasthenia gravis. Exercise may not clearly reduce myasthenia gravis symptoms, but it can improve strength, balance, mobility, endurance ...

Patients with myasthenia gravis experience higher comorbidity rates and healthcare utilization compared to healthy controls, indicating a significant disease burden. Treatment patterns for myasthenia ...

In patients with myasthenia gravis who are being initiated on eculizumab therapy because their disease is refractory to standard treatments, the safety of an abbreviated washout period in ...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease that blocks proper communication between your nerves and muscles, leading to weakness of your voluntary muscles (the muscles you can control and move at will ...

Five therapies are currently approved by the FDA for treating the symptoms of myasthenia gravis, allowing partial to complete remission. Research suggests that five new therapies may become available ...

It’s a lifelong autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It causes certain muscles to weaken easily after you use them. Muscle fatigue typically varies throughout the day (sometimes hour by hour) and gets ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare neuromuscular disease in which the voluntary muscles quickly become tired and weak as a result of dysfunction with nerve and muscle communication. Myasthenia gravis (MG) is ...